A review by jefffrane
The Winter Road by Adrian Selby

5.0

It's a very demanding read, but the reward is tremendous. Selby drops the reader into his imagined world with few reference points and virtually no exposition. The language of the characters is unusual and difficult to follow, there are jolting transitions in time and exhausting violence and pain. It's just really good and creative writing that pulls the reader into the protagonist's mind and drags us along. I had my doubts for a number of pages because I felt lost in this place and among these people but once I stopped worrying about explanations and let the story carry me along I could not put The Winter Road down, not even after the final pages--it was still stuck in my head. I don't know where Adrian Selby came from but I really hope he sticks around.