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A review by brandonadaniels
A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli
5.0
Goes down like moonshine distilled in a radiator.
Such a unique book. Piccirilli is a relatively unknown author, but he has several book, and I’m excited to delve further into his catalogue. Piccirilli imbues the small town of Kingdom Come with a mythic quality; it almost feels like a fantasy book. You forget that the story is supposed to take place in modern times. The story is weird and twisty and turny, but it’s less about the plot and more about the mood and the vibes, and the vibes are bad. The story gets very unpleasant, and if I have anything negative to say, is that it some of the sexual violence feels a little gratuitous, and it doesn’t really feel necessary to the story. It reminded me at times of Harriet Crews’s A Feast of Snakes and Ian Banks’s The Wasp Factory. It falls more into the category of Grit Lit than it does horror.
Such a unique book. Piccirilli is a relatively unknown author, but he has several book, and I’m excited to delve further into his catalogue. Piccirilli imbues the small town of Kingdom Come with a mythic quality; it almost feels like a fantasy book. You forget that the story is supposed to take place in modern times. The story is weird and twisty and turny, but it’s less about the plot and more about the mood and the vibes, and the vibes are bad. The story gets very unpleasant, and if I have anything negative to say, is that it some of the sexual violence feels a little gratuitous, and it doesn’t really feel necessary to the story. It reminded me at times of Harriet Crews’s A Feast of Snakes and Ian Banks’s The Wasp Factory. It falls more into the category of Grit Lit than it does horror.