Disclosure: I received a free copy of this novel from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Paul Cody’s Walk the Dark is a slow, strange novel that unfolds through two alternating sequences. The protagonist and narrator, Oliver Curtain, tells his life story via a series of chronological flashbacks, starting from early childhood and […]
2022 Update: Just shy of ten years since I first read it, No Country for Old Men is every bit as grim as I remember, and then some. One thing shifted for me on my second reading: I used to think of this book as an ultra-gritty crime story, but this time around, it felt more like […]
It feels odd to call Tom Sweterlitsch’s The Gone World a “fun” read, but fun is a whole lot of what I had while reading it. In this riveting and extremely grim science fiction thriller, the classic detective novel gets a time travel twist. Sweterlitsch’s imagination demonstrates impressive nuance and scope, and his prose slices the mind like […]