There were certain scenes that definitely pushed boundaries and stepped over lines into discomfort, and a few sexual scenes with dubious consent at best. The story as a whole was a little predictable, a couple of things didn’t make sense, and the “twist” was easy to work out from quite early on in the book, though the character seemed intentionally obtuse about the clues at times. That is certainly true of this book on the small scale. This was my first book by Waggoner, Bram Stoker award winner, and he has long been praised as someone who pushes boundaries and does the unexpected. He’ll do whatever it takes to find his daughter, even if it means becoming a worse monster than the things that are trying to stop him. But no matter what Shadow throws at him, Jayce won’t stop. An enigmatic woman named Nicola guides Jayce through this bizarre world, and together they search for Emory, facing deadly dog-eaters, crazed killers, homicidal sex toys, and – worst of all – a monstrous being known as the Harvest Man. Jayce’s twenty-year-old daughter Emory is missing, lost in a dark, dangerous realm called Shadow that exists alongside our own reality. BOOK REVIEW: The Mouth of the Dark by Tim Waggonerįlame Tree Press – Fiction Without Frontiers
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