Books by Caitlín R. Kiernan
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review 1: Sorry, I'm a bad person. This is a highly rated book by a major author in her genre, but it just didn't hook me. I found myself flipping through pages waiting for the point to arrive. I think this is why in general I avoid first person, and this one's subject mashed together unre...
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review 1: My first impression of The Red Tree: Kerinan was certainly committed to creating story authenticity, although perhaps mildly cliche is her use of the 'I found this unpublished manuscript thing.' The narration, while pushing the limits of story, within story within story (I think ...
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review 1: I grabbed this on my last library trip based on the author Caitlin Kiernan, who I know is a big Lovecraft fan and is often chosen for horror short story collections. The cover art is stunning and the inside art is quite good as well. I would say the story takes precedence here ...
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review 1: I managed almost 3/4 of this book before calling it quits. The author is undeniably gifted, intelligent, and original in expression, but I simply couldn't get past the monotony of the revolving door of the main character's musings. I've read another book by this author which was...
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review 1: Ghosts are those memories that haunt us. But what happens when you cannot trust your memories? And what if the truth is worse than even your sick mind can come up with?India Morgan Phelps, Imp to her friends, is schizophrenic. A hereditary condition, Imp has to be careful she doe...
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review 1: I wanted to like this more than I ended up doing because it looked very much as if it had all the hallmarks that normally float my boat. I'm fascinated by mental illness and like when it is incorporated into horror stories as a way of introducing ambiguity and increasing the unre...
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review 1: On occasion a book comes around that pulls me into it's world and it's characters so completely that I forget about the real world for a while. For me The Drowning Girl surpassed even that. It wasn't just a great novel, this was a gut-punch straight to my soul. I'm not sure if I ...
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review 1: Definitely my least favorite of her books. The first story was the only one I'd encountered before in another collection - and it was my least favorite of that collection. I've read that the author wonders why her sci fi is consistently much less popular than her fantasy. I can't...