Benedict Patrick’s Reviews > Something Wicked This Way Comes > Status Update

Rarely do I enter a bookstore without a clue about what I’m looking for. This was, however, a rare impulse-buy.

What a difference from modern fiction. So far, 16 chapters in and little has happened, but I’m already captivated by the prose. Jim’s dialogue with his mother packed a punch:

‘I’m never going to own anything can hurt me.’