A review by liamunderwood
The Sorrow King by Andersen Prunty

2.0

I seem to have accidentally started a tradition where, whenever I go on holiday, I take a bizarro book (or two) with me. Last year when I visited Croatia I read HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! (it was... ok) and Apeshit (far more enjoyable), and this year when visiting Austria for a weekend of skiing I took The Sorrow King. Unfortunately, I found this to be more in the vein of HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! and came away from The Sorrow King feeling it was just ok. There are flashes of greatness in this book, usually when author Andersen Prunty leans more into the horror, but overall I never found myself massively gripped and eager to read what happens next. The premise is interesting, but the elements that most piqued my curiosity are often overlooked or left (presumably deliberately) ambiguous. I don't really know exactly what I was expecting from this - hell, I never know what to expect from bizarro having only read literally just three of them now - but I was hoping it'd be more.... enjoyable is the wrong word, but better. Yes. More better, please.

2/5