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A review by luminesse
Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown
4.0
what's good: sense of time, place, and culture. when you pass the ramshackle house and shacks of bygone Carolinians, these are the people, this is the Carolina, your mind reaches back to. the intentional descriptive ornateness of language - not challenging or opaque, but stirring a poetic and evocative mood of nostalgia, or clutching you into the moment faster and more intensely. Also, intense descriptions of car racing in Fords and Hudsons.
what's not so great - ultimately a run-of-the-mill storyline disappointing in its familiar, predictable turns - best to consider it an old folk tale - might make the simplistic-but-savage aspects of the resolution easier to stomach if you would otherwise be hoping for an elevated turn, either more imaginative or more appealing to our angelic natures.
what's not so great - ultimately a run-of-the-mill storyline disappointing in its familiar, predictable turns - best to consider it an old folk tale - might make the simplistic-but-savage aspects of the resolution easier to stomach if you would otherwise be hoping for an elevated turn, either more imaginative or more appealing to our angelic natures.