Jeremy’s Reviews > The Night Land > Status Update

The end is near.

And, as with most things in this book, it's coming very slowly. The vastness, weirdness and subtle malevolence of the Night Land itself remain the novel's main accomplishment and the hero and his beloved's passing within a mile of the House of Silence is a disturbing reminder of that.

Having found Naani, the narrator is making his way with her back to the Great Redoubt. Hodgson's archaic, pedantic narration continues, largely through repetition and a plethora of embedded and subordinate clauses, to weave its bizarre magic. Still impressive stuff.