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

Definitely feels like I am in the home stretch of this book now. The Judge looking around the plains and stuff for The Kid and saying that The Ex-Priest had clouded his mind and what not was really tense. I saw talk of the judge in the keywords/titles for the next chapter, after “Under Arrest”, so I’m nervous to see what will happen if The Kid is arrested and he finds him.

In some chapters, The Kid doesn’t even matter. I find that really interesting. Like, he was alone for a large chunk of the pages I read since my last update, trying to join up with the army party again, so of course he mattered there. But much of the latter half of what I read was focused on Glanton, or The Judge, or just… not The Kid. I find that very, very intriguing, as I said.

This has continued to be very visual while it gets more graphic and disturbing. It isn’t an in your face type of disturbing, not in the typical sense of the word, at least, but the feeling I get when I finish each chapter is a very deep pit in my stomach. Following such a cruel bunch of characters in an interesting read. I am made uncomfortable by the Judge still.

The Judge is so freakish. And mysterious, and unsettling. I find it very curious that apparently ALL of the men in the company claim that they’ve met him before now. Quite an ugly visual for him. A man so collected (I use that term loosely) normally, but he can do just about anything… very, very odd. I am enjoying the story so far. The scene with the cards being read was quite interesting.