This is the affective story, written in a well representative almost bleak style, of seventeen year old Thomas Mahey. Thomas is from a small, blue-collar town in Kentucky, a place that is kept on the verge of disaster by high flood walls holding back the Ohio River. With naivety and optimism, simple […]

A noir thriller about a straight-edge police officer who becomes obsessed with the sultry married woman who moves in next door.
This novel was my first foray into noir fiction… and although I wasn’t thrilled with the characters, the plot, likely even this book,  I was enthralled with the genre.  From the beginning the narration was […]

The writing in this book unsettled me in the beginning.  There are no quotation marks.  Everything runs together.  But it ended up suiting the story really, really well.  The style was simple and powerful, and the characters were written in the same way.  Also, it didn’t feel like a single word was wasted.  Which can’t […]

I really like epistolary novels, and this was no exception. Style wise, at least, I like this sort of thing. This is the first one that I’ve read, though, that only one side of the correspondence was shown, the rest just assumed or mentioned in responses. At the beginning of the novel, […]

I did not LOVE this book as a whole, but some of it was amazing. I think that Faulkner’s over-all style takes away from the brilliance of some of the scenes. Because every scene is written like it should be brilliant, but it isn’t always.
Will write more when I have my copy in […]