Southern Gods
John Hornor Jacobs,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Night Shade Books
John Hornor Jacobs,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Night Shade Books
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781597803533 (1597803537)
ASIN: B00725WH8O
Publish date: August 1st 2011
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Pages no: 229
Edition language: English
"Southern Gods" is a Lovecraftian novel set in rural 1950's Arkansas. Jacobs does a great job mixing a hard-boiled-esque detective story with a tale of something much, much older.Good job!4 1/2 STARS
This was a solid 4 star book. Maybe even more, as the more I think about it the more I like it. JHJ did a really good job of character development and the plot was easy to follow and moved at a good pace. I really enjoyed the different story threads and how they melded togehter into a tight, well th...
Flannery O'Connor marries H. P. Lovecraft.Now that's a wedding I would love to attend. OK, so I might be stretching the point here but John Hornor Jacobs has managed to write an intriguing marriage of Southern Gothic and Lovecraftian horror. The plot of Southern Gods evolves around an ex-veteran knu...
Southern Gods is the debut novel of John Hornor Jacobs.I wasn't sure at first how much I was going to like Southern Gods. It started out with a great, atmospheric prologue which should have been a good thing, but prologues always send off warning signals to me that the book is going to need a lot of...
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