The Auctioneer

Color me sadly underwhelmed. After reading all the excitement regarding this book, I was disappointed. It didn't remind me of NH very much, and I'm from there. The entire time I read, I was thinking of any accent but the obnoxious one of my childhood. There are some farms there, sure, but it isn't actually necessarily the easiest state in which to farm, unless you're mostly a cattle farmer. The classic ‘Ayuh,' only happens once. It was small-town ambiguous.

I don't mind the strangeness, but there should have been more. This read more as a domestic thriller with absurdist overtones or something. Not horror. And all the men are terrible. The only one I liked was the drunk, Mickey.

It wasn't bad. But it was not what I was hoping. Nor was it at all scary or chilling. After everything, the ending was strangely abrupt and dramatic. But I'm glad I read it, since it's important.