kate read and liked Kim's review of Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West:

"The story nor the characters have any redeeming qualities. I really enjoyed reading this book where it's every man for himself and survival is key. "

kate read and liked Matthew's review of Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West:

"This book is hard to get through, if only because it such a relentless march of senseless cruelty and horrific violence that, after a while, just becomes numbing. But, hey, that's Cormac for you. Gotta give the guy credit for understanding the chaos ...more This book is hard to get through, if only because it such a relentless march of senseless cruelty and horrific violence that, after a while, just becomes numbing. But, hey, that's Cormac for you. Gotta give the guy credit for understanding the chaos and carnage left in the wake of the War of a Thousand Deserts decades before historians did. Also, unlike the understated tone of his more recent books, the language itself is extravagant and hypnotic. It has the feel of an ancient epic, like some borderlands Iliad with the love and heroism and triumph taken out, unmoored by delirium, with nothing left but the poetry of bloody desolation. (less) "