"Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There{u2019}s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can{u2019}t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrifi{u00AD}cial blood he pours on his prayer log. There{u2019}s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll America{u2019}s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There{u2019}s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte{u2019}s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right"--Jacket.
I have to admit I struggled to get into this book a little; but I don’t think that was the books fault, I’m just easily distracted. The Devil all the Time is a dark southern gothic novel follows the story of some weird characters in southern Ohio and West Virginia over a few decades. The gritty gothic/noir story plays out expertly and every character is flawed and deeply troubled. The book in parts is disturbing; with a lot of sex and violence but all the stories interlink so well to pull together an expertly written book. While I would like to give this book 5 stars, I have to give it 4 because of my struggle with this book; I’d like to revisit this book again one day and see if my opinion has changed.
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