Review: Fun but disjointed
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 24, 2013
I absolutely loved "Punchline," and mostly enjoyed the same writing style and voice in this novel, but Cellar Door was less satisfying. The use of a time-shifting mechanism (the narrator is in an interrogation room, relating past events) was more distracting and sometimes confusing than I could tolerate. There were also several vague promises made early in the book, which I don't think were ever fulfilled. Details for some minor characters (living and dead) seemed to be added randomly. And the book ends without revealing one final secret, which was left unexpectedly as a sort of MacGuffin.