invertible_hulk 's review for:

Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman
3.0

Far better than Mad Black Wheel but nowhere near as good as Bird Box -- this felt like ideas for two separate novellas got mashed together. Up until the last 30-40 pages, there are two distinctly different narratives that are barely connected; even the towns that James Moxie visits along the Trail feel nothing like the town of Harrows, where Carol's story takes place. Pulled apart, edited, and given poignant endings, the Moxie/Smoke story and the Carol/Dwight story would each be pretty interesting, but mashed together, the whole is a bit of a slog.