Broken Monsters

Overall entertaining and inventive with flawless writing. Suffers from the classic “weird fiction novel problem” (that it's tough to maintain a really eerie atmosphere over the length of an entire novel)–compounded by a little bit too much “Men, Women & Children”-style commentary on modern life and the internets. Felt most acutely at the climax where I could feel the novel drift between “unexplainable Ligotti-esque horror lurking the streets of Detroit” and “blunt metaphor for how our current attention economy is destroying society.”