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A review by markhoh
Hinton Hollow Death Trip by Will Carver
5.0
Will Carver is a real master of a unique genre of storytelling with Hinton Hollow Death Trip being something of a cross between a procedural crime thriller, a documentary on the the plight of humankind, a statement that uncovers the depravity that exists in all of us just beneath the surface, and a self-help book that actually states what is blatantly obvious yet is so needed in order to jolt us in someway out of our unrelenting stupor.
Hinton Hollow Death Trip is the third in Carver’s Detective Sergeant Pace series and sees Pace return to his childhood home in an attempt to get away from himself and the aftermath of the ‘people of choice’ multiple suicide groups in the city. Pace brings Evil with him and Evil wreaks havoc in the small town, bringing to bear all that which exists just beneath the surface in horrific, violent and devastating ways.
Somehow amidst the darkness that envelops the usually sleepy town, Carver shines a spotlight on the fragility of humans, the facades and the facts that they cover up and the propensity that people have to believe their own rhetoric and self-deception. Humans are paradoxical by nature and Carver’s tale brings this to bear in the most vivid of ways.
Detective Sergeant Pace is a dark and broody character, almost a caricature in some ways. He is a sad and pathetic character in all reality, likeable because we are all Pace at times. I think that’s the starkness of this book... there’s something very pulp about it but at the same time there’s something very real, and sometimes we don’t want to look at the real. The facade is so much easier until it’s not easy anymore and the bandaid has been ripped off to reveal the scars underneath.
Hinton Hollow Death Trip is the third in Carver’s Detective Sergeant Pace series and sees Pace return to his childhood home in an attempt to get away from himself and the aftermath of the ‘people of choice’ multiple suicide groups in the city. Pace brings Evil with him and Evil wreaks havoc in the small town, bringing to bear all that which exists just beneath the surface in horrific, violent and devastating ways.
Somehow amidst the darkness that envelops the usually sleepy town, Carver shines a spotlight on the fragility of humans, the facades and the facts that they cover up and the propensity that people have to believe their own rhetoric and self-deception. Humans are paradoxical by nature and Carver’s tale brings this to bear in the most vivid of ways.
Detective Sergeant Pace is a dark and broody character, almost a caricature in some ways. He is a sad and pathetic character in all reality, likeable because we are all Pace at times. I think that’s the starkness of this book... there’s something very pulp about it but at the same time there’s something very real, and sometimes we don’t want to look at the real. The facade is so much easier until it’s not easy anymore and the bandaid has been ripped off to reveal the scars underneath.