Review at Horrified

I am very happy that my novel of the 'Christian Weird' seems to be being embraced by readers of fantasy and horror. A new review has just been posted at Horrified magazine:

In the end, The Angels of L19 is a strange, brilliant novel. It’s unsettling when it needs to be, but it is also an excellent coming-of-age story. It’s a novel about blind faith and the pressures of youth. It’s funny, unsettling, and often deeply, deeply uncanny. I don’t think I have ever read a novel quite like it. 

This follows previous reviews from fantasy or horror sites at Locus and Ginger Nuts of Horror. 

Review at Locus

Lovely review at Locus from Ian Mond, who calls The Angels of L19 a 'tremendous novel', and says:

I, of course, loved Walker’s sudden switch from the quotidian to the supernatural. Not just because it’s an audacious move (which it clearly is) but because this clash of styles plays cleverly into the novel’s themes about religion and faith. ... While Walker is careful not to draw any facile conclusions about religious belief, in straddling between the real and the unreal, the mimetic and the fantastic, he brilliantly lays bare the struggles of two teenag­ers striving to find meaning and comfort in a world increasingly overburdened by misery and despair.