A review by dominicwong
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

"Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay."

To no surprise, this is now some of my favourite stuff I've ever read. This book is crafted with such painstaking delicacy that all of its violence and depravity and desolation (and there's a fuck ton of it) reads like scripture. Ageless and fateful. Each word drips with such crucial intention and so so much blood. Like always, Cormac McCarthy proves that his words are to me what oxygen is to my survival.