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Horns by Joe Hill
3.0

After a raging bender, Iggy Parrish wakes up with horns growing out of his head. Thinking he has finally lost his mind after the brutal rape and murder of his girlfriend Merrin Williams, Iggy soon finds out that his horns have a strange power over people. Will he finally be able to clear his name and find Merrin's real murderer?

This story started out super promising for me, but began to drag when the narrative became muddled due to many changes in time and POV. While I thoroughly enjoyed the writing and the audiobook narrator was excellent, I never really got the sense there was a meaning to all of it. Iggy got horns, yes **SPOILER ALERT** he got his revenge after several mishaps and I think he had a somewhat happy ending. I don't know, I was just a bit underwhelmed and found my attention wandering after one too many descriptions of violent acts. There was also a bit too many "leap of faith" moments were I wasn't really able to fully suspend my disbelief. I MUCH preferred N0S4A2.