 Hello everybody! E here. E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we're going to be talking about Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt. This copy was a gift to me from my friend Susan Burgess. She's usually in chat, well not usually, she pops up in chat, but she'll be down there in the comment section also. She was nice enough to send me this, along with several other books. This one so far out of all the ones that I've read that she sent me is my favorite. This is the third best novel I have read in 2020. I know Samantha Hunt has, she has a short story collection out. I think it's in The Dark Dark or something like that, and she's got another novel coming. I will definitely be buying both of those as soon as possible. This one takes place in an orphanage, this one takes place on the road. It's a bit of a road trip story, walking, not driving, and there's a bit of the supernatural about the book. When I first read Mr. Splitfoot, I thought there was going to be more of like a devil or a satan kind of subplot. That's what took me so long to read it because I don't care too much about that kind of thing. Anything that deals with religion, period, I kind of tend to stay away from, but I do like stories of like magical realism or fabalism or any of those really off the wall things. I think this one kind of fits into it, especially once you get to a certain part because with magical realism and fabalism, you really don't trust the narrator. You can't trust the narrator. And it hops back and forth between a first person POV and a third person POV. And I loved how that broke up maybe scenes that might have been told not as well in a different style. The writing here though, man, Samantha Hunt can write her ass off. There wasn't a single time when I felt bored just reading just scenes of like slice of life kind of things. There was no point in time where I was like I really want this to be over. I took my sweet time with it, took me months and months and months. I read Ohio and I took me months and months to read Ohio while I was reading this one. I was doing about 10 maybe 15 pages a night and just enjoying it. Just savoring the beauty of the language. There's a certain atmosphere to the book that I really enjoyed. There's a darkness to it. There's a sense that something is a miss. Something is wrong. Now going back to the whole devil thing, if I miss something, if you've read this and you caught more of the devil satan vibe than I did, please let me know down there in the doobly-doo. But yeah, I don't really have much else to say because I don't want to spoil anything for you. I mean even what I said may be a little too much. But definitely go out and pick this up if you're a fan of atmosphere, tone and just really, really beautiful writing. If you've read this and you liked it or if you disliked it, especially if you disliked it, let's have a conversation down there in the doobly-doo about it. No spoilers, but until next time, I have been E, you've been U, and it's been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!