Title: Far from his best effort
Product review: I only recently discovered the work of Tom Piccirilli and have been fairly impressed with his writing over all (the Fever Kill--Piccirilli's first full blown crime nowel--is particularly good.)and I was fairly excited about reading A Choir of Ill Children. The only problem is that the book is far too meandering for it's own good. Piccirilli concentrates on creating a creepy, other worldly atmosphere and does so in spades, but he sacrifices plot in order to demonstrate his obvious poetic gifts. If you're a fan of William S. Burroughs and other such surrealist writing, you'll love A Choir of Ill Children. However, if you''re looking for a straight forward Horror novel, you would do better to look elsewhere in Piccirilli's catalog.
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