Will I love The Thicket?

This book, by Joe R. Lansdale, tells a coming-of-age story. A world where evil prevails, testing the hero’s Christian faith. His morals are inconsistent with the norms of society.

It presents more of a moral forest far more than the real Big Thicket described in greater detail in my novel.

As a cross-genre “mystery writer,” I’m not big on fiction classifications. This book, like most great books, defies pigeonholing. Some would say “crime novel,” some “western,” others “thriller,” others still, “adventure.”  

Regardless, if the first sentence of this book doesn’t hook you, nothing will. It is nothing short of mastery. Character-driven story-telling at its finest, running a reader through a gauntlet of gut-wrenching emotions with ease—poignant, gritty, tongue-in-cheek, and often horrific. Perfectly seasoned with Texas cornpone, this coming-of-age western tale is a fist full. I loved it.