This novel is a black hole of violence and misery. The land is cruel and flat and hot or cold and mountainous and cruel. The people are worse.

Cormac writes by showing not telling and he is telling you a very scary horrible story. I can't read things like this often without lightening things up with a Pratchett novel or a Charles Stross. Next I'm reading Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway and it is the perfect antidote.

HIGHLY ENJOYED. Not entirely sure what was going on all the time, but I felt it was me not paying close enough attention.

This is the kind of book that you go look for someone's critical analysis of it afterwards. Like listening to Nick Cave's the Mercy Seat, but as a book.