The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The third official novel of Welcome to Night Vale...aka the reason why I finally started binge-listening to the podcast today, at long last. This secret backstory of Mara Wilson's character is so vastly different from any of the other Night Vale media I've yet seen, being specifically a period piece and centered on a backstory set all over Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Lots of Franchia and Svitz, and Luftnarp, and Russia, and even Malta - I'm not kidding, there's a whole scene of pomegranate- and lemon-heisting on the docks of Valletta and redistributing the fruity wealth as the villagers on the other side of the island deserve. And by the time this mostly linear, but occasionally flashing back forward to the near-present day, story ends, and the truth of its great twist comes out...holy crap, do Fink and Cranor have that game down or what? No wonder I had to finally start the podcast from the beginning today. 11 episodes in, 159 to go as of today...
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