Ultimately, though, the horns come to symbolise something other than evil. He doesn’t always succeed he isn’t perfect. Ironically, he’s a pretty decent guy who tries to use his powers for good. Ig, though, is more than just an anchor for plot points. There’s also something darkly comical about the novel in the way people revert to their base instincts when they’re around Ig. There’s something fresh about his work, and a keen eye for – well, not exactly mythology but rather the things that lie just outside of our common folklore, the things that lurk in the shadows of pop culture, of fairytales and folk tales. Dumbfounded and alarmed by his new powers, Ig sets out to find who really killed Merrin and extract revenge.Įnough has been said about the Joe Hill-Stephen King connection, so I will just say this: I like King, but Hill is without a shadow of a doubt the better writer of the two. Snakes suddenly follow him wherever he goes. His mother tells him she’s always thought he was weird and wishes she’d only had his older brother. A cop tells him he‘d like to shoot him in the face because he doesn’t like the look of him. A doctor confesses he’d like to grind up some oxy and snort it. He is puzzled as to why they are there, but when he goes to ask people what to do about them they suddenly tell him their deepest, darkest desires. On a chilly summer morning, one year after the brutal murder of his girlfriend Merrin, Ig Parrish wakes up to find that two small horns have sprouted from his head.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |