![]() ![]() This was the height of Marvin’s worst behavior. Scowler is told in alternating time lines, beginning in those couple of days in 1981 and then flashing back to 19. Marvin was the picture of an abusive husband and abusive father. Marvin didn’t want anyone thinking that he wasn’t being a good enough farmer that he had to employ his wife in another job to make ends meet. Ry’s mother Jo Beth was one subject of Marvin’s need for power: she wasn’t allowed to sew or mend clothing, despite having a talent for it. He watched over all of them, in fact, with the kind of eyes and hands a man dying for control and power did. ![]() When Ry’s father was there, he made sure the place was thriving. Nineteen-year-old Ry’s little sister lost one of her teeth and neither of them can find it lying anywhere on their dead family farm.īut the farm wasn’t always dead. Oh, also there’s the possibility of large meteorites falling to the earth ( does this sound eerie or what?). The kind of scenes that involved putting the book down mid-scene so I could collect myself before soldiering on. This book is brutal and depicts some of the most horrific scenes I’ve ever read. It is not, and I repeat myself here, it is not for the weak stomached or weak of heart. If you’re a fan of horror - the kind of horror that doesn’t come from specters or werewolves or other creatures outside the world as we know it - then you will want to pick this book up. So Scowler was my first Daniel Kraus book. ![]()
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