A review by trinkets_jar
Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

1.0

John Darnielle is the primary member of The Mountain Goats? How am I just learning this?? I love his music, but I wish he would stop writing novels. This is the second book of his that I’ve read in the last year, and I wouldn’t have picked it up if I’d made the connection to Devil House. I’m mainly upset because I love the conceit of the story so much, and the writing itself is solid. It’s like he lays out all these cool toys and then throws them in the trash with how everything fizzles into nothingness. I like a bit of literary horror, but I still want my literary books to have a point