It Devours!: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel
A new page-turning mystery about science, faith, love and belonging, set in a friendly desert community where cosmic horror, ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday life. Welcome to Night Vale…
“Brilliant, hilarious, and wondrously strange. I’m packing up and moving to Night Vale! –Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a supernatural mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God.
Nilanjana Sikdar is an outsider to the town of Night Vale. Working for Carlos, the town’s top scientist, she relies on fact and logic as her guiding principles. But all of that is put into question when Carlos gives her a special assignment investigating a mysterious rumbling in the desert wasteland outside of town. This investigation leads her to the Joyous Congregation of the Smiling God, and to Darryl, one of its most committed members. Caught between her beliefs in the ultimate power of science and her growing attraction to Darryl in this quirky love story, she begins to suspect the Congregation is planning a ritual that could threaten the lives of everyone in town. Nilanjana and Darryl must search for common ground between their very different world views as they are faced with the Congregation’s darkest and most terrible secret.
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Community Reviews
This book definitely was a huge improvement on the first Night Vale book. The plot was tighter and more cohesive and not sacrificed for Night Vale references, and I actually liked the characters more than random people I couldn't pick out of a crowd. They were actually interesting and developed and people I wanted to find out more about. Someone who didn't listen to Night Vale could actually follow this story (even though they might have a lot of questions lol). I also liked that there were some actually deep lines in here that could make someone think, which is always when Night Vale is at its best. I loved the comparing and contrasting of the beliefs in science and religion and how neither can be right or wrong.
I did find that the last 50 pages of the book got way more slow and boring and it was a drag to keep going after the climax because there was nothing dangling to keep me going anymore, so that definitely knocked off at least a full star for me. Overally though, I enjoyed the story as someone who likes Night Vale and that entire world that the authors have created.
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