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A review by amandamlyons
Seelenhandel by Kealan Patrick Burke
4.0
Milestone is the most haunted of all the dying towns you ever heard about. Its citizens are twisted and mangled by their dark pasts and the things they have come to know and do since moving there. Days run into weeks and then years where they all get by on the simple notion that this is their life now and there's no way they can change it. Why fight the decay when there's no more hope left beneath all your pain?
One by one they are all led out into the night to commit terrible crimes to satisfy a corrupt minister who tells them its their salvation. They are all victims of self loathing and regret trapped in a cycle. That is until that night when everything changes and the bizarre events at Eddie's bar morph into even stranger truths and dark resolutions.
Currency of Souls is my first Kealan Patrick Burke novel and I'm happy to say I'll be going out of my way to find more of his books in the future. Rather than following some of the established paths in horror this books takes its time, develops interesting characters and is constantly surprising you with the details of their lives both through Sheriff Tom's eyes and out of his sight. I don't think I've come across such an interesting narrative in a while and I enjoyed the soft haunted voice of Milestone itself. This really is a very haunted and dying town and its because of the people who live there rather than any dark past for the town per se.
The story resonates, the horror here is more subtle and far less about gore and violence than it is about the strange reality we place ourselves in when we've given up and let our past actions and failures swallow us whole.
One by one they are all led out into the night to commit terrible crimes to satisfy a corrupt minister who tells them its their salvation. They are all victims of self loathing and regret trapped in a cycle. That is until that night when everything changes and the bizarre events at Eddie's bar morph into even stranger truths and dark resolutions.
Currency of Souls is my first Kealan Patrick Burke novel and I'm happy to say I'll be going out of my way to find more of his books in the future. Rather than following some of the established paths in horror this books takes its time, develops interesting characters and is constantly surprising you with the details of their lives both through Sheriff Tom's eyes and out of his sight. I don't think I've come across such an interesting narrative in a while and I enjoyed the soft haunted voice of Milestone itself. This really is a very haunted and dying town and its because of the people who live there rather than any dark past for the town per se.
The story resonates, the horror here is more subtle and far less about gore and violence than it is about the strange reality we place ourselves in when we've given up and let our past actions and failures swallow us whole.