A review by erasmios
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

4.0

Reading Something Wicked This Way Comes feels like entering a mesmerizing dream. There's something about Bradbury's dreamy, poetic prose that does it for me. No other author has managed to put me in a trance half as deep as Bradbury. This book was much heavier, bigger than I thought it'd be. It took me a while to figure out where Bradbury was going with this novel. I don't mean to say it's a slow-burn, rather I wasn't able to see the bigger themes in play until I was maybe halfway through the book. (They're pretty obvious now that I think about it, I just kind of assumed the book would've been more about two-boys-visit-a-scary-circus than time and death, good and evil.) This novel didn't captivate me quite as much as Fahrenheit 451 did, but I'd still recommend it to anyone interested in ornate prose and fantasy-horror. If you have a chance to read the Folio Society edition don't miss it. The illustrations are amazing.