Declare Appertaining To Books Welcome to Night Vale (Welcome to Night Vale #1)
Title | : | Welcome to Night Vale (Welcome to Night Vale #1) |
Author | : | Joseph Fink |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 401 pages |
Published | : | October 20th 2015 by Harper Perennial (first published September 20th 2015) |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Horror. Science Fiction. Humor |
Joseph Fink
Hardcover | Pages: 401 pages Rating: 3.84 | 31418 Users | 4768 Reviews
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From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves...no matter where we live.Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.
Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked "King City" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact that she can't seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and that no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City and the man in the tan jacket before she herself unravels.
Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton's son, Josh, is moody and also a shape shifter. And lately Diane's started to see her son's father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier, when they were both teenagers. Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger and stronger interest in his estranged father, leading to a disaster Diane can see coming, even as she is helpless to prevent it.
Diane's search to reconnect with her son and Jackie's search for her former routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words: "King City". It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries, and their futures...if they can ever find it.
Details Books Toward Welcome to Night Vale (Welcome to Night Vale #1)
Original Title: | Welcome to Night Vale |
ISBN: | 0062351427 (ISBN13: 9780062351425) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Welcome to Night Vale #1 |
Characters: | Jackie Fierro, Diane Crayton, Josh Crayton, Troy |
Setting: | Night Vale |
Literary Awards: | British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Horror Novel (August Derleth Award) (2016), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2015) |
Rating Appertaining To Books Welcome to Night Vale (Welcome to Night Vale #1)
Ratings: 3.84 From 31418 Users | 4768 ReviewsEvaluation Appertaining To Books Welcome to Night Vale (Welcome to Night Vale #1)
Here's the short version: This book is a marvel and a wonder. You should try it. Here's the medium version: Seriously. Try it. It might be a little outside your usual reading habits, but it's not thick of cumbersome at all. It's delightfully clear and strange and unlike anything else I've ever read. And I've read a *lot.*I even liked it enough to give it a blurb: "As a fan of Welcome to Night Vale, Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink have delighted me with stories that are clever, twisted, beautiful,I have no idea what I just read but I want the book! ππ€£Happy Reading! Mel π€πΊπΎππ»
Oh my god, Id been looking forward to this release all season you guys. I thought FOR SURE this would be a slam dunk, NO WAY the Welcome to Night Vale novel would be anything but satisfactory. A GRAND, FIRE-WORKY finale to this seasons Spooktacular slog.And then it was just kind of ok.So, the thing about Night Vale as a podcast: I love it, obviously. Its weird and fun and thoughtful and quirky and weird and sometimes creepy, but mostly its weird. That Night Vale style of nonsensical,
I received this book as an ARC, and it is almost everything I wouldve wanted from a Welcome to Night Vale book. Ive gone back and forth on whether this is a book for fans or for everyone, and Ive concluded its a little of both. Those new to the universe will find a mystery thats competently crafted and compellingly written (though theyll miss the semi-frequent references to events and characters from the podcast), while fans will get more of what they fell in love with, plus some answers to
I will be writing, have been writing, or have already written (depending on when you see this. Time is strange here on GR) a review of Welcome to Night Vale. But until/when/after I do (or until you return from whatever time stream you are in to read this, or move ahead into another one) I can offer one definite bit of advice. Listen to a few of the Night Vale podcasts. If they float your boat, or, lacking water, elevate you at least several inches off the ground for a period of about twenty
I know, I know, a two star rating for THE Welcome to Night Vale novel.Oh the humanity.And before we begin, yes, I actually DO have the book. This isn't just some attempt on my part to spit on dreams and fart on hopes for the fun of it.Ok, so, I've been a fan of WtNV for awhile now, I like it, it makes my drive to and from work more pleasant, I look foreword to new episodes and I was excited about the new book coming out. Having now finished it however, may I just say "Meh"?The first problem is
I am not able to decide if I would rather like to have the book or the audiobook. I guess I'll have to listen to the hooded figures who tell me to buy both, then.
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