Book Review: The Twilight Pariah
Happy New Year! For my first post of 2020, I want to review Jeffrey Ford's The Twilight Pariah . I've been wanting to check Ford out for a while and finally go around to picking Pariah up from the library a couple of weeks ago. I must say, this is a terrific book, and I can't wait to check out his other work. The story starts with high school friends Maggie, Russell, and Henry meeting up at the beginning of the summer before their senior year of college. Maggie has recently switched her major to archeology and gets the bright idea that they should excavate some ruins of a local abandoned mansion for practice. When they find the skeleton of a baby in the remains of the mansion's old outhouse, things take a turn for the sinister. Because this isn't any normal baby skeleton. This baby has horns, a ridged spine, and a tail. Soon, the friends find that something is stalking them, and people close to them begin to die in gruesome ways. It's all somehow connected to