#awnovel

Whew boy.

So this book is great if you like :

Alan

Barry

Benny(Mott)

and Hartman.

If you were  hoping for more Pat Maine, Agent Nightingale, Deputies Thorton and Mulligan, hell more Rusty, you’re gonna be disappointed.

Sharing more of Alan’s thoughts and fears did do a lot to humanize him a tad more than the game did and I might even like him a little more in this book but other characters like Rose really suffered in their representation.

Also blonds don’t exist.

Barbara “Darkness” Jagger’s evil laugh also kind of struck me as odd. The book and the game keep trying to convince us The Darkness isn’t human in terms of nature but it sure is smug, condescending, calculating, angry, and a lot of other things we attribute to human nature but I’ll make another post on that later.

I got this book cause I was told there was more character content, but there’s even LESS Nightingale in the book than in the game! Burrough’s cut the scene at KBFM radio entirely!

Sure, we got a sprinkle of exposition from him as he randomly decides to tell Sheriff Breaker at the last minute about Finn only to die moments later. 

Also according to Burroughs, Hartman IS messing with the buttons on his sweater.