I usually write about one review a year (because procrastination), but I jumped to writing this immediately. When you buy anything on Kickstarter (which is where I bought God Cancer), you never know what you're going to get—and often, you're disappointed. This was definitely not the case here.
I was impressed by the craft and quality of everything in this book. Greg Stolze knows how to write! His prose is smooth and polished, and he makes countless right choices in what to choose (or omit) and where the story needs to go next. I found the Cthulhu plot more interesting than the Cancer plot. Both build slowly, but the payoff in both subplots is both sudden and brutal, and I could not have anticipated either one. An added bonus is that the Cthulhu plot ends in a more decisive and satisfying way, unlike 99.9% of all the other Lovecraft stories and stories with a Lovecraftian bent from countless other writers.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] |