menfrommarrs 's review for:

The Burn Palace by Stephen Dobyns
4.0

This was a second read for me and I liked it much better this time. I think that the first time around the plethora of characters in the beginning was too much to keep track of, so I lost interest. This time I noted certain characters that I thought were of larger interest in the story and got along much better.

The cliff hanger chapter endings were wonderfully frustrating! I continually screamed "Don't cut to a different scene now!"☺ That and impossible odds, kept me reading on for more.

With quirky townsfolk and a hint of the supernatural, Brewster could be the twin city of Derry.