![]() ![]() What The Revelation does have going for it? An apocalyptic street preacher, an inspired but morbid conceit for an infernal threat, and an extended exorcism for a creative finale. ![]() It's obvious that Little's ambition is to write a sprawling story that encompasses the many lives of the place it is set in, but awkward chronology, more awkward marital flirting, some cartoonish violence and a slow first half show that some growth as an author is still needed. Secondary characters abound as locals are mangled and their stillborns shanghaied, but otherwise these natives add little more to the narrative other than incident and a body count. ![]() ![]() Our protagonists-an overwhelmed sheriff, a blue collar laborer with a baby on the way, an Episcopal priest with light ESP-though lacking much personality, are at least stalwart about performing their civic duty to sniff out and then snuff out the source of all this devilry. A first novel through and through, Little's The Revelation visits a small mill town in Arizona where the locals are besieged suddenly by diminutive, cackling fiends that want to paint all the churches with goat's blood before burning them down, gnaw on entire families and turn household pets into confetti. ![]()
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