A review by jane_kelsey
Horns by Joe Hill

5.0

I loved it. It's true, I was a bit lost at the beginning, but he pulled me back in with brutal force. Finished the novel in 2 days.

I loved the plot, the character, the way he wrote it, not pretentious, but exquisite. This is a book where he digs deep into the characters and in the story. I had the feeling of reading a true story. It didn't feel like every single character plotted together against Ig,it just that everybody hated or disliked him for their own reasons, contributing little by little to his torment and anguish. Human error, malice and prejudice because Ig had it all and they made him nothing.

Horns is a book about humans, about how putrid and evil they can be. Ig, with the help of his horns and new found powers, digs into the human soul and takes to the surface everything that they hold evil, every bad thought they had.

Ig was consumed by the death of his beloved Merrin, who was raped and murdered. A tragic story about love, death and human nature. Loved it.