![]() ![]() Shit hits the fan when Letha (implausibly) falls in love with Peter in. Too bad that’s all I can come up with after reading 300+ pages…). Letha’s only characteristic is that she was (perhaps) impregnated by an angel (this is not a characteristic, you say? Well you’re right. Top the Godfreys off with a surplus branch of the family that includes Norman Godfrey, Olivia’s late husband’s brother and her current lover (everything is kept very much in the family, hint) and Norman’s daughter Letha. She has a completely trite secret which isn’t revealed until the end of the book… and which is at once completely superfluous but somehow also predictable once the author brings it up. Their mother, Olivia, is both sexual and a bitch (a new, untried combo!). We meet more of Roman’s family, including his sister Shelley, who died and was resurrected as an infant and is now a giant who does not speak and travels via mull cart or the bed of a pickup truck. The town lays blame on the newly arrived gypsy (or Romani, but the text uses gypsy) boy named Peter and soon his friend, Roman Godfrey, tries to find the killer with him. ![]() I was surprised how much I loved reading this, so much so that halfway through I bought my own copy so I could write in it, but, after the author set up some interesting possibilities, the writing (both style and action) fell the fuck apart.įirst, a summary: An unidentified animal murders several young girls in a Pennsylvanian former steel town (go Stillers). Rape trigger warning, not a spoiler free review Hemlock Grove, or: More Destructive Than Deconstructive ![]()
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