A review by abookishtype
The Broken Hours by Jacqueline Baker

3.0

H.P. Lovecraft is experiencing a revival. The strange author of even stranger stories had a life, it seems, that was crying out to be turned into fiction. Within the last year, I've seen Lovecraft turned into a character in stories based in his fiction. His settings have been revived for even more novels. Jacqueline Baker's The Broken Hours is a literary turn on this little renaissance. Her novel is set in the last year of Lovecraft's life, when he was furthest down on his luck and dying of cancer. The Broken Hours sent me scurrying to Lovecraft's biography more than once—and, consequently, had me wondering what was fictional and real more than once, too...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from Edelweiss for review consideration.