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Tag: Cormac McCarthy

Review – Outer Dark

Posted on October 20, 2026

After her brother abandons their newborn in the woods and lies about its death, a desperate young Appalachian woman sets out to find her baby while her guilt-ridden brother flees across a bleak, violent landscape.

Review – The Orchard Keeper

Posted on October 17, 2026

A timeless story without a specified human protagonist, π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ π‘‚π‘Ÿπ‘β„Žπ‘Žπ‘Ÿπ‘‘ πΎπ‘’π‘’π‘π‘’π‘Ÿ follows three characters whose lives intersect within a narrow geographical and cultural context.

Review – Child of God

Posted on October 14, 2026

After losing his land and home in 1960s Tennessee, a violent and isolated backwoods outcast descends into total madness, becoming a cave-dwelling serial killer and necrophiliac.

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