Sunday, September 1, 2019

Midwestern Strange by B.J Hollars - Bookin' It With Jen

This book was, to paraphrase Val Johnson in the book, 'so flat that if you got up on a stepladder on Wednesday you could see both Sundays'. I expected a book dealing with monsters and aliens and the mysteries of Midwest to be at least a little exciting but it LITERALLY put me to sleep multiple times. I found that it dragged on and on. I think that the author has done himself a disservice writing this as a book instead of perhaps a podcast, to which I think it would be better suited, in the vein of Wild Things. The material itself is interesting, but the delivery was just too dry. I'm not sure how you make monster hunting boring, but this book did it. 

Thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for providing me with a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own.

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