![]() ![]() And I almost forgot: it is one of the best produced and most unique reinvention of the vampire mythology. Not only is this book a big epic that spans decades and continents and waves of emotional upheaval, but it is a rather intimate story as well, one that creeps up on you with its ideas and themes, places you in the shoes of the characters and makes you think twice before you turn the light off to go to sleep at night. ![]() ![]() This is the kind of horror novel that makes other genre authors jealous with its perfection in both fields it excels at. But this is a different beast than I had expected, and that because it makes you feel all of its 767 pages. I did not look forward to this book, which is why I placed it toward the end of my reading list for the first half of 2017. I read Song of Kali a few years ago and it did not impress me all that much besides a few scares and a rather downbeat ending. The grand leap between two novels, as there is between Dan Simmon’s first novel Song of Kali and his second, Carrion Comfort, has never been as far and astounding as it is here, and completely changes how I feel about the author. ![]()
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