I had to start this review by searching for the differences between sociopaths and psychopaths. Never say that I don’t strive for accuracy! Joe Goldberg is a psychopath. We met him in Kepnes’ GLORIOUS debut novel, You, which I easily 5-starred in 2014. If you haven’t already read it, I highly recommend that you do so. At the time I described it as “Lolita for the Twitterverse”, and the story of Joe Goldberg’s obsession with Guinevere Beck really set the unlikeable, unreliable narrator trend on […]
Ghouls and Gods in Dreamland
Johannes Cabal is a necromancer, and one day three men appear with an offer. Messrs. Shadrach, Corde, and Bose want to hire him as their guide into the Dreamlands in order to find and destroy the Phobic Animus, the source of all fear. The Dreamlands are an alternate reality accessible to dreamers, poets, philosophers, and those under the influence of mind-altering substances. Dreamlands are full of beauty and wonder, but visitors are equally likely to meet monsters and nightmares of epic proportions. Cabal accepts this […]
As Long as Nothing Happens Anything is Possible
There are spoilers for the end of the book in this review. I can’t believe I made it to 43 without having read Graham Greene before now. I’m glad I chose this one because it’s really kind of .. charming. About ten pages in I thought “I bet this one was made into a movie and I bet it was an Ealing with Alec Guinness.” Two out of three! (It wasn’t Ealing). It takes place in Cuba, in a time before the Cuban missile crisis […]