The Croning

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Laird Barron: The Croning

English language

ISBN:
978-1-59780-231-4
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2 stars (1 review)

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2 stars

I just had two back-to-back plane flights for a short trip. Were it not for the fact that I didn't bring anything else to read, I don't know that I would've brought myself to finish this book.

This is my second book with this author, and I really enjoyed The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All. But whereas I found that to be a very creative and inventive short story collection, this book was a single narrative that felt like an entirely different person wrote it, which is wild considering they were only published a year apart from each other. The Croning also felt very dated, like classic horror literature from the 70's or 80's, so I was surprised to see it came out in 2012.

It's hard to criticize and nail down what I didn't like here, and a large part of that is that there wasn't a …