The Book of Accidents

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Published July 19, 2021 by Del Rey.

ISBN:
978-1-5291-0108-9
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Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his family what happened there.

Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t have—and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures.

Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania.

Now, Nate and Maddie Graves are married, and they have moved back to their hometown with their son, Oliver.

And now what happened long ago is happening again . . . and it is happening to Oliver. He meets a strange boy who becomes his best friend, a boy with secrets of his own and a taste for dark magic.

This dark magic puts them at the heart of a battle of good versus evil …

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I first heard of Chuck Wendig when he was a twitter dunk of the day for his "fuckcrustable" posting style, and mostly because he sued the Internet Archive. However, I read this for a local book club. The prose had tough-to-read gory moments that I had to pause for, and the writing drew some chuckles, but the overall story is a little bloated. There was a moment where I felt like I was reading the climax of the story, but actually had another 25% left.