I'm glad other reviewers have pointed out the problems with basic rules of punctuation and point of view in this novel. You may not fall in love with Brian McGreevy's characters - not all of them anyway - but they are complex and likable and hateable and maddening and fascinating all the same. And Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania is kind of like Forks, Washington, or it is like a version of Forks in which Bella and Jacob and whatshisname aren't such a bunch of saps.
A few rather twisted graphic novels come to mind. The book invites comparison, and comparison might be the only safe way to sell it without blowing it for the reader: you could think Twin Peaks and you'd be in the Hemlock Grove neighborhood. Paradoxically, although I want to read this book again for the first time, I also want to read it again for the second time, knowing what I now know. It is so wonderful to be surprised so thoroughly, I do not want to mess that up for anyone. I had no idea this book was going to go most of the places that it went, and I failed to catch even the giant broad hints it threw at me.
Now I think I'd have to say Hemlock Grove, because I was so COMPLETELY unprepared for. There's a standard question people ask in interviews: "What book would you most like to read again for the first time?" My answer always has been Love & Rockets because I was so totally unprepared for a comic book to turn out to be an actual novel, and because I fell in love with the characters, and falling in love is always a wonderful experience. Except maybe this one because I am not going to say ANYTHING. Or perhaps it’s Roman, the son of the late JR Godfrey, who rules the adolescent social scene with the casual arrogance of a cold-blooded aristocrat, his superior status unquestioned despite his decidedly freakish sister, Shelley, whose monstrous medical conditions belie a sweet intelligence, and his otherworldly control freak of a mother, Olivia.Īt once a riveting mystery and a fascinating revelation of the grotesque and the darkness in us all, Hemlock Grove has the architecture and energy to become a classic in its own right-and Brian McGreevy the talent and ambition to enthrall us for years to comeĭO NOT read reviews of this book. Others turn to Peter Rumancek, a Gypsy trailer-trash kid who has told impressionable high school classmates that he’s a werewolf. Some suspect an escapee from the White Tower, a foreboding biotech facility owned by the Godfrey family-their personal fortune and the local economy having moved on from Pittsburgh steel-where, if rumors are true, biological experiments of the most unethical kind take place. A manhunt ensues-though the authorities aren’t sure if it’s a man they should be looking for. The body of a young girl is found mangled and murdered in the woods of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania, in the shadow of the abandoned Godfrey Steel mill.
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