
The Worm and His Kings
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Narrated by:
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Allyson Voller
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Hailey Piper
New York City, 1990: When you slip through the cracks, no one is there to catch you. Monique learns that the hard way after her girlfriend Donna vanishes without a trace. Only after the disappearances of several other impoverished women does Monique hear the rumors.
A taloned monster stalks the city’s underground and snatches victims into the dark. Donna isn’t missing. She was taken. To save the woman she loves, Monique must descend deeper than the known underground, into a subterranean world of enigmatic cultists and shadowy creatures. But what she finds looms beyond her wildest fears - a darkness that stretches from the dawn of time and across the stars.
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The first truly Modern Lovecraftian horror?
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A delightful cosmic horror story!
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The characters… I can totally relate to Morgan
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Overall Much better than the hack job done by other supposed “critically acclaimed” cosmic horror writers like Cronning (Laird Barron) who stuff their books with meaningless fluff. But not nearly as good as the fisherman (John langan) or revival (Stephen king) .
The cannon should have been fleshed out more and the ending was a little too neat for my tastes in a cosmic horror.
But the details and personality was really developed in the characters and the representation was good too.
Honestly felt like it should have been a multi part book or it could have been much longer , bc like I mentioned earlier, the cannon needed a little more fleshing out and while the ending could have been good I felt like it needed more background buildup to make it truly satisfying.
7/10
Not bad, ending not to my taste.
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A wonderfully angry cosmic horror story
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Very solid weird fiction with horror elements
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Hailey Piper unquestionably nailed the landing. The conclusion is emotionally satisfying, narratively justified, and brings all the themes of the work to a beautiful fulfillment. That counts for a lot in my book.
Now ask me how much I enjoyed the book as a whole. It was good and well-crafted. I love the elements of ambiguity, the cosmic scale, the mythology of a pre-human civilization. Most importantly, while it's dark and desperate, there's just enough light of hope that the narrative doesn't get eaten by the Gru of Indifference. Hailey knows precisely how much lifeline to give you.
If I find fault with the book, it's probably the pacing. For me at least, it dragged in spots. I was alternating this with another book, and I found that one, despite being longer and more languid, held my attention better.
Subjectively, personally speaking, I think the book was good but I didn't like it as much as I wanted to. I probably won't reread this one, although I don't regret reading it or buying it. But I try to be objective enough to recognize my own subjectivity, and for other people this will hit the perfect spot and become a well-worn favorite.
The ending seals the deal
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Solid Cosmic Horror
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Monique my beloved
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Cosmic Horror Done Right
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