 Hang around to the end of the video for your chance to win a copy of This Tender Land by William Kent Kruger. Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. Right out the bat, this book isn't out yet, but I wanted to get a little buzz going before it actually comes out. It does not come out until February 2nd. Wow, February 2nd of 2021. So next year, next February, this will be out. I'll do a book birthday to remind you guys to go pick it up. But I highly suggest you pre-order it because this is a fantastic book. It is Good Neighbors by Sarah Langen. I don't know if you can see this on the screen or not. This cover doesn't show up well. Yeah, I think that's better. I don't know. Maybe in post, I can clean it up a bit. But so right out the bat, I've heard of Langen. I think that's how you pronounce it. Langen before. I even have a couple of her horror novels on my TBR. This is not a horror novel, although it does have notes of a horror novel. If you like paranoia, if you like scenarios, stressful scenarios, if you like people being accused of something they didn't do and trying to clear their name, if you like climactic endings, this book is fantastic. There was a couple of points in the book where I was like, I could be moving a little bit faster. And that is toward the middle of the book. The beginning and the ending are absolutely amazing. The stuff in the middle did kind of, I'm sorry, it kind of droned on for me. And I read this one with my friend Tracy. And I believe Tracy felt the same way that there was certain, and this is a hella short book. 290, 300 pages, something like that. The stuff in the middle kind of went on a little too long for my liking and her liking. I'm giving this four stars. For those of you that don't want to hear anything else other than my rating, I'm giving this a solid four stars. And the only reason for that four stars is I didn't absolutely love it. I didn't fall in love with it. It is a good book. It is a great book. It is not an amazing book. And that's not a knock to the author. That's just me saying it didn't do as much for me as maybe some other books that have been five stars for me. I hope that makes sense. But it's not to say that this book isn't good. It is very, very good. The characters are fantastically done. I liked the Wilds family. I even liked Ria's family to a certain extent. Maybe not her, but I did understand her motivations and all that. I completely grasped that. But I don't know if I was supposed to like the rest of her family or not because I did. Shelly, even the husband, Fritz, FJ, I don't know about. But there are characters in here that you love to hate. There are characters in here that you understand their motivations even though they suck as human beings. You really get to know them. And I think Ria's character stands out as probably the best character in the book. She is so well described and so nuanced. Her, the backstory, everything is done so well with that character, kind of outshined, outshined, whatever, everyone else in the actual book. There's something, there was a, I don't know, there was more depth to her character. In fact, with the other characters, I've kind of lost, I finished the book about a week ago, I've kind of, you know, I can't remember their names. But I remember Ria very, very well. And I remember Shelly because the entire plot of the book basically revolves around Shelly. If you would like to win a copy of This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger, can't remember this dude's name, if you'd like to win it, email the time signature that I'm talking about the book right now, email that to edwardlorn at gmail.com. That's Edward L-O-R-N at gmail.com. To say a little bit more about the plot, the plot is about this crescent street. It's a street shaped in the crescent. There's even pictures of it in the book. I'm not going to show it, but there's like a map, kind of like fantasy, you know, world kind of map environment kind of thing. And across the street from this row of houses and the suburbs is a park. And during, I think a barbecue, there's a sinkhole that opens up and things are lost down in the people and something else is lost down. That's why I say things. It's not just one person that gets lost, but there's also something else that gets lost. And the something else that gets lost comes back later on as an explanation for something that I thought was going like full blown supernatural horror. Excuse me. So if you're going into this wondering whether or not there's supernatural aspects, if you're one of those people who thinks that ruins books, then you're going to be happy here because there's no supernatural aspect whatsoever. This is a straightforward thriller. It does have some very, very good horror aspects to it. There's a scene underground that is absolutely amazing. I think that's when the book started picking up again for me is during that underground scene. I very, very hard Stephen King it vibes, very, very strong Stephen King it vibes. I loved it. There's a point where one character is just hollering the same thing over and over again. I don't want to spoil it, but that that was very poignant for me. That hit me really, really hard. I enjoyed that about the book. The writing is phenomenal. I know up front, I know, I know there's going to be people like, oh, the middle slow, the middle isn't really slow, but the middle did not interest me as much as the rest of the book, I guess is what it is. There's some great stuff in there. It just didn't interest me as much and it felt like it was going on a bit too long. That's just my own personal opinion. I have a feeling everyone else is just going to blow right through this book, because I never wanted to put it down. I never wanted to stop reading it. I enjoyed reading it the entire time, but there was a point where I was like, okay, something else needs to happen and it went on a little bit longer than I was comfortable with. And then finally the denownment began and I was back to loving it again. So I'm going to give it four stars. That's Good Neighbors by Sarah Langen. Had you read this one, did you get your hands on an ARC? If you did, let me know. If you come across this video later next year or in 2021 and you've already read the book and are looking for other reviews, let me know what you thought of the book. Whether or not you loved it, whether or not you hated it. If you did love it, if you did hate it, let me know why you loved it or hated it so that we can have a discussion. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye.