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It Devours!

a Welcome to Night Vale Novel
Aug 17, 2018SCL_Justin rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I always enjoy stories about how faith and science interact. In Night Vale that interaction is weirder and somehow sweeter than in most novels. I imagine a lot of that is because the setting of Night Vale just works differently than the world I live in, and everyone who lives there understands it differently, and you're constantly unsettled by revising your assumptions, even about what pizza means in a town that has banned wheat and wheat products (people eat globs of cheese and sauce by themselves and it is very messy). But just like Night Vale is weird, the characters who are so earnest in their weirdness that doesn't feel weird to them makes a great way to examine what it means to live in a world guided by metaphor or by the very literal promise of a cosmic centipede devouring a town whole. This is not a book for people who love realism, but if you like odd things this is definitely for you (even if you haven't listened to the podcast or read the first novel).