A Black and Endless Sky

A Black and Endless Sky

2022 • 270 pages

Ratings3

Average rating3.3

15

Like a B horror movie that blows its special effects budget on the opening action scene and then proceeds to go downhill with a mediocre plot and bad acting, that is my opinion of this story. I thought I was in for a possible Lovecraftian tale when a high security industrial base in the Nevada desert blows open an entrance to something that's been buried beneath tons of earth for millennia and releases what has been trapped there. But then the story devolves into a cross country trip between an estranged brother and sister as they travel between San Francisco and their father's home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. These are two very unlikable characters whose whole existence seems to revolve around getting into fights with each other and various dangerous strangers. After the two cause mayhem and death in a biker bar and flee the scene, the sister manages to get possessed by whatever evil came out of the Nevada desert pit. The rest of the story mainly becomes a chase as bikers pursue the pair looking for revenge and a lady exorcist of sorts (who releases the possessed victims by murdering them and then taking on the released evil) also chases after them in order to relieve the sister of her evil burden. Many bloody encounters occur along the way as all unlikable parties are beaten, sliced, diced, punctured and shot, but yet manage to continue on, with the sister's venom-like intruder occasionally making an appearance.