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It Came From Del Rio (2010)

by Stephen Graham Jones(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1936500019 (ISBN13: 9781936500017)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Trapdoor Books

review 1: Border town dark and brilliant, as much noir as SF as neither, just as the borderlands are never one thing or the other. I raced through this the way I haven't done in a while. Since Moorcock. Jones is a great writer, both in his language and in his eye for the curious and crazy details that make character unforgettable, both in people and places. Those are the details I've always loved and if you want eccentric details, the southwest's sure got them. Of course I love it more that this is my place, well, my neighboring world as much as I could consider Texas so. This border and landscape and small town madness and Spanish and English and la migra and coyotes of both varieties... Though I do really hate la migra. That was hard, but then I think that's the point. There is no... more gloss over shit politics and extreme violence, or the deep love between man and woman, father and daughter. I love it when authors can manage to get both right, so few seem to do it. So, point is, I barreled right through it, entirely caught up in the story and unable to stop, questioning nothing. I caught myself almost skimming at points just to find out what the hell was going to happen next. I definitely read it too fast, I got some questions now, like what's the deal with the rolled up wire and the rabbits anyway? What's chupacabraish about these babies apart from monstrosity? Though I've heard enough sightings I guess to well believe that's what they would have been called. I did want a dead goat though. Or chickens. But hell, save the questions for the second read, and just enjoy the ride the first time.
review 2: A marvelous hard-edged, sometimes bloody, modern western about a widowed drug smuggler forced to abandon his young daughter when he’s tripped up by something really bad that he’s pressured into carrying across the Mexican-US border. Dodd Raine’s voice and plight engaged this reader totally. How can you not pick up a novel in which the legendary chupacabra is crucial to the plot? Highly recommended less

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