Review: Descent into madness
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 21, 2011
..warning..if you haven't read the first two installments of the Solitary Tales, go and read them now, THEN pick up and read Something I Can Never Have..As Travis Thrasher calls it, this is a 'b-side' to go along with Solitary and Gravestone.  It's a prequel novella that focuses on Jeremiah Marsh, the creepy preacher from Solitary, NC.  It's different in form than those other two books in that it's presented as a series of letters from Marsh to his Doctor back home in Solitary.  See, Marsh apparently grew up in Solitary, left, then as we all know, came back...These letters are creepy..creepy and disturbing.  As each new one presents itself, Jeremiah goes deeper and deeper into madness.This is a great way of fleshing out some of the characters of the Solitary universe.  Since the Solitary Tales are all told in the first person via Chris Buckley, it's interesting to see a little back story of another major player in the series through their own eyes.Here's hoping we get some more of these featuring other main characters! If anything it would make the wait for Temptation slightly easier ;)