The lady in question is Carol Evers, who suffers from a rare malady that sends her, with little to no warning, into comas that are indistinguishable from death. What separates it from the pack is the occasional odd character or occurrence sprinkled throughout-enough to keep it far away from the Louie L’Amour section of your local bookshop. What Malerman delivers here is a mostly straightforward tale of an outlaw, a lady, and a dramatic last-minute rescue. That everything-and-the-kitchen-sink approach rarely works as well as you think it should. What I got was in many ways a bit tamer than what I expected. But that’s okay, because I liked most of what I did get. So, when I allowed the title and the synopsis and the cover to lead me to expectations of a western/horror hybrid that would be a dark cross between a fairy tale and a Hammer movie…well, I should have known that wasn’t what I was going to get.Īnd it wasn’t what I got. I should know by now, after reading much of Josh Malerman’s output (except, somehow, the one that got everybody talking about him to begin with: Bird Box), that he is not going to deliver the expected. I had certain expectations for Unbury Carol.
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