I am just as shocked that I found "The Devil in Silver" to be a three star read. This was a tough one for me to get through. I almost DNFed it at one point because I just found myself getting bored with this book. I think the reason why is that it started off as kind of a potential horror book that ...
Pepper is brought to the New Hyde mental institution, because he got into a fight with the police. He believes that the police have dropped him there, rather than do all the paperwork it would take to arrest him. He's sure that he'll be out after the weekend, but many weeks later he finds himself j...
Mostly while I read this, I just kept asking, "Why?"Why does the narrator break out and speak to the reader directly every so often?Why doesn't anyone, including Pepper, care that there's this guy in a mental facility for no apparent reason?Why am I listening to this?Why did it take so long to get t...
Victor LaValle has a real gift for describing authentic "stage business," character gestures, ticks, and body language. These aspects of his writing seem to be drawn directly, and relayed expertly, from observation. This book is frightening and sad and very funny, too. The humor works so well becaus...
When Pepper has an altercation with some NYPD detectives, he figures he’s been arrested and on his way to prison. Instead, Pepper finds himself dumped in the mental ward of New Hyde Hospital, a run down public hospital where he is kept under observation and medication. However New Hyde has another r...
I don't know why this book took me so long to finish, considering it's right up my alley. Psychology? Check. Rundown mental hospital? Check. Crazy, likable characters? Check. Yet for some reason, as soon as I settled down on the couch to read, my mind would start wandering. But once I got ab...
*I got a free ARC of this book through net-galley in exchange of an honest review*This and other reviews can be found on my blog : (un)Conventional Bookviews*Trigger warnings : suicide, abuse by people in a situation of power, murder*New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also h...
Wonderful. But not what I'd imagined, reading the blurbs and description (promising "literary horror" and a monster in the halls of a hospital), or even from the glorious loopy genre reaches of LaValle's last Big novel. Oh, sure, yeah: there is a monster. Or, something like -- when Pepper is drag...
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