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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Enjoyable and easy to read, though to me the style of Night Vale works amazingly as a podcast and less so as a written medium.
Whether you've heard the podcast or not "Welcome to Night Vale" is a fun book chock full of weirdness, absurdity, and heart. This novel delves deeper into life in Night Vale and follows two women on a mysterious journey. Radio announcer Cecil does pop up from time to time and his voice can be heard clearly in your head as you read the words on the page.
If you like the weird you'll love this book.
If you like the weird you'll love this book.
dark
funny
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I think that the main issue I had with this book (as someone who bounced out of the podcast after 10ish episodes for exactly the same reason), is that the joke of it being cosmic comedy horror got in the way of having a good story or depth of character. Not to say it isn't darkly funny, or sometimes engrossing. I liked the main characters by the end, but it took a bit to get there.
adventurous
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'm not going to review this book because I think it wouldn't be fair considering how much of a fan I am of the serious but I have to tell everyone who is a fan of the podcast READ.THIS.BOOK. That is all.
It's the titular podcast sensation in book form, and it's just as enjoyable as its source material. It's absurd, surreal, compelling, and above all, downright strange in the best way possible. Reading just how differently things work in Night Vale is an experience to be savored, and Fink & Cranor bring their pitch-perfect podcast writing into literary form with all the care and detail fans (and readers in general) expect to create a perfect compliment to the podcast and entry into the Night Vale canon. Highly recommend and ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY GLOW CLOUD.
A thought occurred to me as I was writing this review, however: If I had read this book without knowing anything about the podcast, would I have given it a higher rating? The book is very good, and I liked it very much, but when you have knowledge about the source material of a tie-in, for lack of a better word, it has an effect on your enjoyment of material derived from it. Maybe listening to it as an audiobook will tilt me one way or another since the source material comes from an audio medium.
A thought occurred to me as I was writing this review, however: If I had read this book without knowing anything about the podcast, would I have given it a higher rating? The book is very good, and I liked it very much, but when you have knowledge about the source material of a tie-in, for lack of a better word, it has an effect on your enjoyment of material derived from it. Maybe listening to it as an audiobook will tilt me one way or another since the source material comes from an audio medium.
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes