![]() ![]() ![]() The characters, especially Luker and his preciously independent daughter India are engaging and believable. The style of”The Elementals” is cinematic in a lots-of-close-ups, see-the-motes-in-the-sunlit-air lighting and strange but intimate camera angles kind of way. I’d never read Michael McDowell before but I wasn’t surprised to learn later that he was an excellent screenwriter. ![]() What better way to start than with a funeral that goes from dire and depressing to deeply disturbing in a few pages. “The Elementals” has a remarkably powerful, cliché-free start, that embeds your imagination in the South like a throwing knife splitting a rotting log. If you’re looking for a deeply atmospheric, well-written and perfectly narrated novel to fill you with an inexorable dread, “The Elementals” is the book for you. ![]()
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