Busboom takes his time to build the story and its setting. The author’s authorial confidence lured me into this tale and got me to slow down, as only great writers can. WHICH BRINGS ME TO this book from dark-fiction-publisher-on-the-rise, Unnerving. (Hope that little confessional memoir piece was cathartic to you, fellow reviewer, because as you can imagine I’m also supposed to get in writing hours and do a full-time job so I have very little catharsis per day to offer you.) (I’m one of the few reviewers who prefers PDFs. Well I got 300 pages into that then set him aside for a bit because I’m worried my metaphorical ceiling will cave in. I love it so much that I rack up the books I’m supposed to review until they strain against my ceiling and I feel the crushing longing of each text for an evaluation I put off giving it while I dive into my brand-new copy of Knausgaard’s My Struggle Volume Six, which sits at 1200 pages, with so many words on them. “What have you been up to, fellow writer? What’s going on in your heart and mind?” Like many writers, I love to read and review the work of other writers.
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