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Title: Dim, confused and interminable
Review: Straub's novel ambles along ponderously, going nowhere for hundreds of pages as he labors to build an atmosphere of mystery and dread, and exhausts his readers' patience with his unwillingness to let us in on what's happening. It's like watching a magician dash around the stage for twenty minutes, all dramatic poses and flourishes, without ever performing an actual trick. Occasionally Straub has someone die offstage in odd fashion. Yet two-thirds of the way through, we still know almost nothing about who or what is behind their deaths or why. All we know is that a terrible secret from the past has led to some form of supernatural revenge being taken decades later upon some very dull, thinly sketched characters with whom we have insufficient reason to empathize. That much I could have gotten from reading the jacket flap. By the time all this wearisome effort shows signs it might pay off in the final pages, it's too late to care.
