But even with my ignorance of these things, this book delivers a story and characters that stay with me. People who are better acquainted with his work will find echoes and layers I know that I’m missing. Don’t let another day pass before you grab this brilliant novella. I apologize if my delay in getting out this review has in any way denied you the nudge you needed to pick up this book sooner. It’s been a couple of very busy months around here at Unsettling Reads. Do you have to make it look so easy?! Well done, sir. Besides just selfishly wanting the experience to last longer, I know how impossibly hard it is to pack a big story about an enormously important issue into a book that barely tips the scales at a buck fifty. And as a writer, I have a bone to pick with Mr. The Ballad of Black Tom is a song sung quickly-only 154 pages. It was right about then that I started feeling more than a little cheated that this book had somehow escaped my attention for nearly five years! To heap insult onto injury, it’s a slim novel that barely made a dent in my reading time budget. This is Horror Novella of the Year Winner Weve chosen a shorter book this time as there are only. Once I made my way to the description page on Amazon, I was hit with this insane list of awards and accolades: Hope you can join us for the June Book Club at our new home at Blend the Nottingham Contemporary. The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle kept coming up as recommended for me, presumably based on my deeeeep love of both Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff and Ring Shout by P.
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