/run/media/silveradept: The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home

Despite working on a place where some part of my job is to recommend and suggest books to others, I often have little time to read, so it's probably a minor miracle that I had the time to get through the Night Vale novel The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home.

After finishing the book, I was finally able to figure out what felt off to me about the book and why it didn't land for me as well as it could have. Perhaps if I had listened to it on audiobook, Mara Wilson's narration would have helped, or at least smoothed things over enough that I wouldn't have noticed the jarring thing sufficiently.

Here it is: The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home is a perfectly fine novel, well-executed and compelling, but it is not a Night Vale novel.

( Spoilers! )

In any case, yes, I'm reading years-old books at this point and posting about them like there's still meta discussions to be had instead of already having happened everywhere where the Night Vale fans are. If you're a fan of the podcast, unless there's a specific plot point or series of plot points that reference what went on in this work, I'd say to pass on it and read a different Night Vale novel.