The Devil's Alphabet by Daryl Gregory Paxton “Pax” Martin is going home for a funeral. Like so many others born in small rural towns, he migrated to the big city, only to find himself trapped in a cycle of menial jobs and pointless drudgery. But unlike so many who make that journey, Pax was runnin...
What does it take to be human? This book explores that question in an eerie, imaginative, and original way. The author's skill in creating compelling characters will engage and drive you to the very unexpected end. I really can't peg this into any one genre , and that's one of the things I liked abo...
This cover will always freak me out. Always. And I've seen some pretty messed up covers.
The fact that I couldn't finish this before it had to go back to the library tells me its not worth my time. I wanted to like it, but...couldn't. It wasn't horrible, or anything, just slow, with rather cardboard characters, and too much that was probably meant to be mysterious and ominous, but was r...
Very engrossing. BUT some questions remained unanswered at the end. I don't need everything answered, of course. I figured I'd never be given the "real" reason behind TDS (and I'm fine with that), but I did want to know why Pax was so susceptible to the vintage. If the author is trying to say that P...
Really interesting concept and fundamental ideas; even better was how the characters used to communicate those ideas were round and interesting as people and not just as capital-i Ideas; even even better was its handling of both East Tennessee and sexualities other than hetero - subjects which I wil...
Gregory's stuff can be boiled down to some high concepts (an alternate history of an America plagued by constant demon possession; a town struck by sudden transformations of its population into three new species), 'though they're never reduced to simple narrative beats or big-Plotted thumping. They...
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