![]() Maybe there is a great tale here, I for one will never know because it is beyond a convoluted mess of contradictions and I am giving up at the 45% mark. Joseph Fink is the creator of the Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn't Dead podcasts, and the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Welcome to Night Vale, It Devours, and The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home (all written with Jeffrey Cranor) and Alice Isn’t Dead. Now do that a thousands of thousands of times and that is what reading this book was like. Only to be contradicted yet again to complete the paragraph. From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves.no matter where we live. Every single sentence should not be contradicted in the next. There was a heap of potential here, if only the authors would let the story flow and rein in the torturous over the top quirky. Joseph Fink is the creator of the 'Welcome to Night Vale' and 'Alice Isnt Dead' podcasts, and the New York Times bestselling author of WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE, IT DEVOURS and THE FACELESS OLD WOMAN WHO SECRETLY LIVES IN YOUR HOME (all written with Jeffrey Cranor), and ALICE ISNT DEAD. ![]() It was so convoluted and trying too hard to be - what ever the hell it is trying to be - that it completely failed to follow the number one rule of literature, make your product readable. It takes quirky and throws it off a high cliff only for it to be snatched out of the air at the last moment by an eagle, and seconds later a great white shark leaps out of the ocean and devours the eagle. This book however is not a well written book. You write a good story and I will read it. ![]()
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