Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink

Alice Isn’t Dead

by Joseph Fink

From the creator of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes a story about loving, about searching – and about the courage you need when you find the unexpected.

Keisha Lewis mourned the loss of her wife, Alice, who disappeared two years ago. There was a search, there was grief beyond what she thought was possible. There was a funeral.

But then Keisha began to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America.

Alice isn’t dead. And she is showing up at the scene of every tragedy in the country.

Keisha shrugs off her old life and hits the road as a trucker – hoping on some level that travelling the length of the country will lead her to the person she loves.

What she finds are buried crimes and monsters (both human and unimaginable), government conspiracies, haunted service stations and a darkness far older than the highway system it lies beneath.

Cast in the fluorescent lights of midnight diner-signs, this story is as big as the open road and as intimate as the darkness of a trucker’s cab: perfect for fans of Stephen King, Serial, Twin Peaks and American Gods.

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I'm going into this little review to say that I haven't listened to the podcast this book is based off of! But now that I've read it, I'm curious to listen to a few of them...

This book had been recommended to me a while ago by a mutual on my Twitter, and I only knew that it had a wlw couple, which is really enough for me to read a book honestly. Mind you, the romance isn't exactly the focus of the book, and without spoiling any of the gritty details...this book kinda gave me a chill at some parts, and it's been a while since any book gave me that feeling.

Also, I think the pacing was quite ok. Every little detail that Keisha comes across builds onto one another, and the story is a bit of a puzzle like mystery, which made it hard for me to put down.

Anyways, glad I read it, and I foresee me giving it a re-read sometime in the future. :)

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