A review by lolajoan
Hold the Dark by William Giraldi

3.0

Can an entire book be one long onomatopoeia? The characters, the setting, the story, and the prose itself are all hard, lean, confused, savage and yet poetic. I feel like some of the rave reviews blurbed in the book are a bit hyperbolic, but it definitely leans towards literature rather than airport novel. The writing is almost surgical, and the story is something new, I think. It's an absolute tragedy in every way (I'm pretty sure it's not a spoiler to say that it didn't exactly have a happy ending) so maybe don't make this your light beach read fire the summer.