Hell’s heaven! Unbury Carol was an okay read but, I did have some issues with the novel. Malerman is a great storyteller but I feel that this was entirely too repetitive and droned on at a snail’s pace in places. I get that Carol was in Howltown so obviously there wasn’t much “going on” there but I felt those scenes were super boring because of it, even with the character Rot. Smoke and Moxie’s back and forth was interesting but it got stale for a bit for me. The most interesting aspect of the book was Dwight’s mental unraveling as he continued to lie. With this being said, the events in the story just moved too slow for me. Even with characters that weren’t in a coma-like state most of them seemed to live inside their heads instead of DOING things, and when they did it was predictably mild and boring. While I liked the initial story line I would have appreciated it much more if there were more actual events instead of inner dialogue. Overall I feel that this would have been more interesting if the story had some more “meat” or was made a bit shorter. In some portions of the book I felt that it was literally previous chapters being reprinted, verbatim, because they all sounded the same! I also expected a little more horror from this book but Malerman seemed to focus more on “The Trail” and the Wild West style enemies in the book. The ending also was extremely predictable and it’s almost like Malerman wrote it to so the reader predicts the ending correctly and then sets the book up so that the reader clearly sees that outcome and the steps it takes to get there. Ultimately, this was a fun read but it wasn’t something that hooked me and drew me in. It would have if it were shorter or more eventful.