If I had to make a one sentence description I would go with Sleeping Beauty meets supernatural western.

So Unbury Carol was not what I was expecting even though I had little in mind as I opened the book.

I have been meaning to get back to Malerman but it took until now and like that first experience, I went in totally cold with no idea of the setting or plot. I went into Birdbox totally cold and loved the experience. Years before it became the most streamed movie in the history of Netflix and endless memes on the internet. When I was at the 2014 World Horror convention in Portland and everyone was talking about this debut novel Birdbox. “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.Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Best Novel (2018) “Bleakly lyrical à la Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor.” - Library Journal (starred review) About six wonderful feet.” -Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels “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. an intricately plotted, lyrical page-turner about love, betrayal, revenge, and the primal fear of being buried alive.” - Booklist (starred review) Barker, internationally bestselling author of The Fourth Monkey A breakneck ride to save a life already lost, proving sometimes death is only the beginning.” -J.

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. As the players in this drama of life and death fight to decide her fate, Carol must in the end battle to save herself. When word of Carol’s dreadful fate reaches him, Moxie rides the Trail again to save his beloved from an early, unnatural grave.Īnd 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. The other is her lost love, the infamous outlaw James Moxie. 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. Only two people know of Carol’s eerie condition. but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days. defies categories and comparisons with other writers.” - Kirkus ReviewsĬarol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. “This one haunts you for reasons you can’t quite put your finger on. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEWSWEEK The New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box returns with a supernatural thriller of love, redemption, and murder.

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