I particularly enjoyed how Lyons compiled the chapters on how many miles they had travelled. Very few novels have been able to nail home that impending sense of dread that you feel in A Black and Endless Sky – you will be consumed by shadow and only see the grey of the world. As Jonah and Nell embark on their journey we see desolate landscapes morph into their biggest paranoia, the figures that always lie in their psyche, their burdens to bear. Think scenes in The Exorcist – that’s exactly where my mind went. Old wounds will be repaired, and relationships will be mended, or will they encounter something they didn’t plan for?įirstly, the novel depicts a dig that encounters something unprecedented and as a lifelong horror fan you know that isn’t going to end well. He heads on a road trip from San Francisco to New Mexico and invites his estranged sister, Nell, along for the ride. Jonah is freshly divorced after his marriage ended without fault but with something always feeling amiss. Life, marriage, and escaping the past is constantly tugging at the seams of their existence. Life hasn’t been easy for the Talbot siblings. Gory and imaginative, A Black and Endless Sky succeeds on so many levels.
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