Book Review: Nowhere by Allison Gunn

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Nowhere by Allison Gunn

Book Summary.

Nowhere Allison Gunn I can take you to heaven, but I’ll have to kill you first. This book will hit different for different people. It reminds me of when I got really into Labrinth songs. All I hear is the music and all I see are the videos I’ve seen filmed to it. It’s not a matter of the material being different, its the experience that goes along with it that changes everything. If you have religious trauma, if you have sexual orientation trauma, if you have an addiction that brought out the very bad parts of yourself that you wish never existed, if you’ve ever knelt on a kneeler literally or figuratively, this will hit different. Rachel is the chief of a small Appalachian town, somewhere in the middle of NOWHERE. She is queer which she has always known but that she and her husband are just recently figuring out. He is a writer and is known around town for an article he wrote about the devastating ineptitudes of the town inhabitants. The article didn’t go over well with them and it is part of what makes Rachel’s difficult job, tenuous. Rachel is called to the scene of a murder and I’ll spare you the horrifying details. It left an imprint in my mind I still have not ironed out. On the scene she hears a song, lightly but distinctly and the more we hear about it the less we want to.

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The Review.

The Karma they have, their children pay for. The only way to really hurt them is through them. The only way to learn the lesson is to watch it play out in the ones you love. Because the perspective is different, it hits harder and sticks longer. This book is described as a a mix between THE OUTSIDER and TRUE DETECTIVE. It does remind me of season one. It is the interesection where heaven and hell meet, where the Devil preys and God prays. I cannot wait to see and adaptation of this which I’m sure is coming. Thanks to Netgalley and Atria Books for the advanced copies! NOWHERE…⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️