Welcome to Night Vale By Joseph Fink and Jeffry Canor

Published by Mariah Sturdivant

May 22nd, 2022

Synopsis

"Welcome to Night Vale . . . a friendly desert community somewhere in the American Southwest. In this ordinary little town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday life, the lives of two women, with two mysteries, are about to converge. Pawnshop proprietor Jackie Fierro abides by routine. But a crack appears in the standard order of her perpetually nineteen-year-old life when a mysterious man in a tan jacket gives her a slip of paper marked by two pencil-smudged words: KING CITY. Everything about the man unsettles her, especially the paper that she cannot remove from her hand. Yet when Jackie puts her life on hold to search for the man, no one who meets him can seem to remember anything about him.

Diane Crayton’s fifteen-year-old son, Josh, is moody and a shape-shifter. Lately, Diane has started to see the boy’s father everywhere she goes, looking the same as he did the day he left when they were teenagers. Josh is growing ever more curious about his estranged father—leading to a disaster Diane can see coming but is helpless to prevent.

Diane’s search to reconnect with her son and Jackie’s search to reclaim her routine life draw them increasingly closer to each other, and to this place that may hold the key to their mysteries and their futures . . . if they can ever find it"

Genre

Sci-Fi

Rating

My rating for this book is 3.2 out of 5 stars. So far, this is the first sci-fi book that I have reviewed for this website and I think that this is a nice breather. The pacing and plot of the book were intriguing and kept my attention. I always had to keep reading to see what would happen next. This book is actually based on a podcast which is so interesting. I like when one art form integrates with another art form. It is as of they are amplifying with each other. This is another book that I got from Bookoff on my trip to New York. However, you can purchase the book on Amazon through this link: Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel: Fink, Joseph, Cranor, Jeffrey: 9780062351432: Books (amazon.com). If you do purchase and read the book, let me know what you think about it in the comments!

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