dankeohane 's review for:

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

5.0

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Wow. What an amazing, vivid, fiercely original novel. One that starts out as a tale of one woman's struggle to survive her past and the harsh world of early 20th century Montana, then morphs into one of the craziest horror novels I've ever stumbled into. It is a horror novel, but it isn't. LaValle surpasses even King in drawing such vivid landscapes and characters, drawing out such emotion from them, and makes you wonder sometimes what is metaphor, and what isn't. But there is a horror element, no doubt. Riveting all the way to the end. Loved this book.