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nigellicus's review
adventurous
mysterious
tense
5.0
Reasonably well-contructed tale of small town awash with terror as cultists try to bring back the Old Gods via a snow storm in June, and while assorted monsters chow down on the populace the local cops and a sort of aparanormal consultant try to save the world. It's fine, but the prose, never bad, was just serviceable, and didn't really inspire me to go any further with the series. (I'm cranky and oversensitive and hard to please at the moment - I found the prose in Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth overly ornate and stilted, while Laird Barron's prose suits me just fine - I blame covid.) The 'Irish Gaelic' pronunciation sounded like something out of Lovecraft, ironically enough.
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