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A review by kandicez
Dark Carousel by Nate Corddry, Joe Hill
3.0
First, all the stars for this lovely, lovely piece of art! The sleeve is a beautiful thing, but then you pull out the vinyl and it just pops! It's this viscous yellow with slips, drips and splatters of darkest grey. Absolutely gorgeous. Added to the thrill is my name, in Joe's hand, in the upper right. I have every book he has released as a signed copy, so of course I needed this!
The story was ok. I think it actually suffered a bit from the narrator. I have not heard him read anything else, and may actually avoid him in the future. He wasn't bad, just would have been better reading straight fiction. I'm not sure this qualifies as horror, but it is at the very least unreliable narrator fantasy.
It's set in the 90s which is another thrill since Joe and I were born around the same time so have the same touchstones fo our youth. Much like Martha Quinn in The Fireman, there were a ton of year references that really touched my nostalgia bone.
I must say that my very favorite part is a quick glance at what at first appears to be a eiche uise, or water horse from [a:Maggie Stiefvater|1330292|Maggie Stiefvater|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1460918410p2/1330292.jpg]'s [b:The Scorpio Races|10626594|The Scorpio Races|Maggie Stiefvater|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1461209661s/10626594.jpg|15535056]! Lovely and more terrifying to me than any other paragraph. I can't wait until this is released in print.
The story was ok. I think it actually suffered a bit from the narrator. I have not heard him read anything else, and may actually avoid him in the future. He wasn't bad, just would have been better reading straight fiction. I'm not sure this qualifies as horror, but it is at the very least unreliable narrator fantasy.
It's set in the 90s which is another thrill since Joe and I were born around the same time so have the same touchstones fo our youth. Much like Martha Quinn in The Fireman, there were a ton of year references that really touched my nostalgia bone.
I must say that my very favorite part is a quick glance at what at first appears to be a eiche uise, or water horse from [a:Maggie Stiefvater|1330292|Maggie Stiefvater|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1460918410p2/1330292.jpg]'s [b:The Scorpio Races|10626594|The Scorpio Races|Maggie Stiefvater|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1461209661s/10626594.jpg|15535056]! Lovely and more terrifying to me than any other paragraph. I can't wait until this is released in print.