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Lord Riven said on January 16th, 2016 at 1:03 pm

Eh. I pre-ordered the ebook and the weird, distancing tone made it hard to get into, but if I’m being honest the real turn-off was that WTNV episode all about how great the book was where they were really coy and trying to push purchases of it, and the episode was so off-putting I don’t think I’ve listened to it since. I will, eventually, but not until I feel less icky about it.

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I was a little dissatisfied. I think the details and random weirdness about Nightvale are fabulous individually. But like an SNL skit run up to feature film length, this falls apart–Nightvale is just a pile of random weirdness upon random weirdness and at novel length it feels very unconvincing.

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I almost lemmed the book early on. It was just so hard to get into (and I’m a longtime fan of the podcast) however it eventually touched me. Maybe it’s due to me as a parent, but I eventually felt connected to the story as it was reaching the conclusion.

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I didn’t mind the “slow to get going” part, as half the fun of Nightvale is getting exposed to the goofy characters and how they perceive the goofiness around them. Jackie Fierro, in particular, was a character wrapped in layers of mystery that got peeled back one at a time as the plot progresses.

Yes, Cecil didn’t really play much of a role. But Cecil is pretty well-developed (if not necessarily in backstory than at least as a personality) that he made for a better narrator than main character.

Overall, I really liked the story from start to finish. It felt like almost a soap-opera drama with an 80s “Moral of the Story” finish, but run through the Nightvale bizzaro-land. On more than one occasion, the shape-shifting son of Diane Crayton was incredibly relatable. That was a kind of absurdity that’s hard to build up in 20-minute podcast episodes.

I will admit, I just did the whole thing on audiobook, so it really did feel like a long, meandering 10-hour-long Nightvale episode.

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