Nick Perzacki’s Reviews > Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West > Status Update

Couldn’t imagine being that traveling performing family watching this leader of cowboys just blow some ladies shit smooth off for no reason. Aside from the brutal violence though, this book is full of incredible quotes: “And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men’s journeys.”

That first battle scene was absolutely horrific, I love how he makes them seeing the initial rush all one reaaallyyy long sentence (he does this a lot, but this felt like the longest one so far). The kid and the other survivor having the run in with the people who killed the captain was also tense as hell. But the kid appears to not be phased by the violence too much as he’s off to collect scalps to get out of jail

Genuinely wondering if the kid has any aspirations other than he wants to “make his mark on the world”, whatever that means to him. He’s asked if he wants to go fight on the Mexican border and is like “why not?” Also, people are dropping like flies around him, whether he’s the cause or not.

Good lord if this is the violence in the first chapter, what the hell is going to happen when we’re ramping up to the climax? I kind of like the no quotation marks thing, it’s forcing me to stay a bit more locked in while reading