still65 's review for:

The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan

2.0

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This book gave me the walking pneumonia and the throw it out the window fits.

I loved Kiernan's [bc:Agents of Dreamland|31189177|Agents of Dreamland|Caitlín R. Kiernan|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1474734054s/31189177.jpg|51832868] ...only book of hers that I've read and that was a novella.
I mean -I damned dead long gone loved that.
So I bought this.

It's a ghost love story told first person (from "journals" left by a suicide we're informed in the almost endless introduction) and its so impossibly hip and so many fathoms beyond cool that I felt like I was a goddamned retro with a flat-top. Double the Butch Wax.

I can't say I "hate" this novel because it never held my interest long enough to summon up anything more than a high fever and low grades.

Disappointing.

I can't believe I set aside a brilliant little 1937 item by Jonathan Latimer to partially read this.
Curses!
Foiled again.