" parts of the book should be described as gothic melodrama. he actually goes overboard portraying the bleakness and craze of characters, woods, trolls, gnomes, monoliths etc. to the effect it's not backdrop anymore but description becomes a pointed element itself excessive. that to say i liked this book. the arc would be a middling, inverted bell curve - nice beginning and end with a fractured, ebbing in between. lester ballard's a nice character. "
— Louis, 1/24/2014