This is my second attempt at this author's work, having DNF'd the first and almost DNF this one. And yet, I'm not ready to give up on his stuff. This was not a bad book. It was interestingly gory, and I always give extra credit to Lovecraftian cosmic horror elements. The characters were fairly engaging, with no tiresomely obvious villains.

What knocked this story down from four stars is that I was also annoyed and confused for much of it. He's providing some exposition/background/clues through some historical documents, in episodic breaks from the current action, and the way the information is presented really does not suit the audio format for me. I'm usually multitasking while listening to books, and I can't easily retain dates and times and fiddly little details this way, especially without the ability to stop and re-read something from a few pages or chapters ago. Ordinarily I'd have dropped the audio and switched to text format, but this book only exists in the audio format. I was interested enough to listen to the end rather than DNF'ing, though.

Audiobook via Audible. Narrator Marc Vietor gives a solid performance. ( )