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Unbury Carol

av Josh Malerman

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Fiction. Horror. Western. Thriller. HTML:The New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box returns with a supernatural thriller of love, redemption, and murder.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEWSWEEK
??This one haunts you for reasons you can??t quite put your finger on. . . . [Josh Malerman] defies categories and comparisons with other writers.???Kirkus Reviews
Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times . . . but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days.
Only two people know of Carol??s eerie condition. One is her husband, Dwight, who married Carol for her fortune, and??when she lapses into another coma??plots to seize it by proclaiming her dead and quickly burying her . . . alive. The other is her lost love, the infamous outlaw James Moxie. When word of Carol??s dreadful fate reaches him, Moxie rides the Trail again to save his beloved from an early, unnatural grave.
And all the while, awake and aware, Carol fights to free herself from the crippling darkness that binds her??summoning her own fierce will to survive. As the players in this drama of life and death fight to decide her fate, Carol must in the end battle to save herself.
The haunting story of a woman literally bringing herself back from the dead, Unbury Carol is a twisted take on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale that will stay with you long after you??ve turned the final page.
Praise for Unbury Carol
??Fantastically clever. A breakneck ride to save a life already lost, proving sometimes death is only the beginning.???J. D. Barker, internationally bestselling author of The Fourth Monkey
??Breathtaking and menacing . . . an intricately plotted, lyrical page-turner about love, betrayal, revenge, and the primal fear of being buried alive.???Booklist (starred review)
??Unbury Carol is a Poe story set in the weird West we all carry inside us, and it not only hits the ground running, it digs into that ground, too. About six wonderful feet.???Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels
??Bleakly lyrical à la Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O??Connor.???Library Journal (starred review)
??With vivid prose and characters that leap off the page, guns a-blazing, Unbury Carol creates its own lingering legend, dragging you along like an obstinate horse toward a righteous storm of an ending.???Delilah S. D
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Mixed bag

I’m really torn on this book. I came close to quitting a few times, mostly because of the pace and the repetitive language. (Apparently in this universe, the only curses that exist are “hell’s heaven” and “pig shit” and they get said CONSTANTLY). Other than that, I found the characters and premise intriguing enough to want to finish. If you get through the first half, it does pick up a bit. ( )
  dappywise | Dec 30, 2023 |
Carol Evers suffers from a strange condition: at times of stress, she lapses into a coma that closely resembles death, only she can hear what's going on around her. Now she's in one of her comas and her husband, Dwight, is planning on burying alive so he can get his greedy hands on her fortune. The only man that can save her is a notorious outlaw that ran from her and her condition years ago, James Moxie. The question is, will he reach her in time? Because there are other people who have an interest in seeing Carol buried alive and they will do whatever it takes to keep Moxie from ruining their plans.

What I like most about Unbury Carol is not the central story itself (which is indeed a great premise) but the world it takes place in. Malerman demonstrates that he great at crafting a world and atmosphere with Unbury Carol. I love the Trail, and the little towns it travels through, and the colorful characters that live and die along its dark and dangerous path. Additionally, the way Malerman describes Carol's condition as being caught in a place called "Howltown" is brilliant.

The horror of the novel is mainly the horror of being stuck in Carol's coma condition and the possibility that she'll be buried alive. There are supernatural elements throughout Unbury Carol, but the most frightening moments of the novel come from Carol's condition as well as the interactions between the human characters and the evil they are capable of. There are many bandits and outlaws on the Trail who wish to stop Moxie in his tracks and some are pure evil. Beside Dwight, the bandit Smoke, embodies this idea of pure evil perfectly (think Anton Chigurh from No Country For Old Men) . I won't give much away but Smoke is a killer who kills without remorse, so he's pretty much the Michael Myers of the Wild West.

Unbury Carol is a fairly breathtaking story, a weird-west fairy tale of a woman struggling to remain alive and the man who truly loves her returning to save her from ending up six feet under. This being said, the novel is not perfect. The build to the climax is amazing, but the payoff was…not disappointing, but not quite enough. I wish there was a little bit more history shown between Carol and Moxie and I wish the ended would have been a bit more explosive.

Still, this bleakly lyrical story of survival, outlaws, is a real-page turner. Check it out. ( )
  ryantlaferney87 | Dec 8, 2023 |
I decided to read this book because it sounded like a homage to Poe. However, I honestly had a really hard time getting through this book. I listened to the audio and kept losing focus. I'm a horror fan, but I'm not a western fan. I found that I was lost at times because there were so many characters to keep track of. I got tired of hearing the same phrases over again. I just got to the point where I didn't really care, it was like white noise. I like Josh Malerman, but I just didn't like this book. I was generous in giving it 3 stars because if you're a western reader, you'd probably like it. ( )
  tami317 | Sep 18, 2023 |
Buoyed by compelling characters, the book nevertheless fails to take its bizarre premise to its macabre potential, creating an overall disappointing experience. ( )
  Birdo82 | Jan 21, 2023 |
This book reminded me of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. Not quite sci-fi, not quite fantasy, and not quite standard fiction. Good book. ( )
  Sunandsand | Apr 30, 2022 |
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Fiction. Horror. Western. Thriller. HTML:The New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box returns with a supernatural thriller of love, redemption, and murder.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEWSWEEK
??This one haunts you for reasons you can??t quite put your finger on. . . . [Josh Malerman] defies categories and comparisons with other writers.???Kirkus Reviews
Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times . . . but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days.
Only two people know of Carol??s eerie condition. One is her husband, Dwight, who married Carol for her fortune, and??when she lapses into another coma??plots to seize it by proclaiming her dead and quickly burying her . . . alive. The other is her lost love, the infamous outlaw James Moxie. When word of Carol??s dreadful fate reaches him, Moxie rides the Trail again to save his beloved from an early, unnatural grave.
And all the while, awake and aware, Carol fights to free herself from the crippling darkness that binds her??summoning her own fierce will to survive. As the players in this drama of life and death fight to decide her fate, Carol must in the end battle to save herself.
The haunting story of a woman literally bringing herself back from the dead, Unbury Carol is a twisted take on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale that will stay with you long after you??ve turned the final page.
Praise for Unbury Carol
??Fantastically clever. A breakneck ride to save a life already lost, proving sometimes death is only the beginning.???J. D. Barker, internationally bestselling author of The Fourth Monkey
??Breathtaking and menacing . . . an intricately plotted, lyrical page-turner about love, betrayal, revenge, and the primal fear of being buried alive.???Booklist (starred review)
??Unbury Carol is a Poe story set in the weird West we all carry inside us, and it not only hits the ground running, it digs into that ground, too. About six wonderful feet.???Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels
??Bleakly lyrical à la Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O??Connor.???Library Journal (starred review)
??With vivid prose and characters that leap off the page, guns a-blazing, Unbury Carol creates its own lingering legend, dragging you along like an obstinate horse toward a righteous storm of an ending.???Delilah S. D

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