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Title: Beautifully Dark & Creepy; Poetically Written.
Review: Caitlin Kiernan has a beautiful voice and it resonates throughout this dark novel. Kiernan's descriptions of the South, rock music, and the young outsiders that largely make up her cast of characters are all beautifully fleshed out, and her wonderfully disturbing tale will crawl into your mind and twitch until (and even after) you finish her book.Speaking of the mind, one of the themes present throughout this novel (and many of her other works) is the question of whether the inexplicable is in one's mind or is based in reality. She eloquently teases the reader with this theme throughout this work.This book was one of the first works that I ever read of Ms. Kiernan's, but it was not the last. I highly recommend all of her novels (as well as her works of short fiction). The sequel to this novel is "Murder of Angels".
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