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We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix is published by Quirk Books, a small publisher of "entertaining, enlightening, and strikingly unconventional books."
We Sold Our Souls is a fun horror book about making music and making a mark on the world and also everything being commercialized. The word "fun" sounds a bit weird considering it starts with Kris living a life she hates and honestly things get worse from there, but it is! Tonally and pacing-wise, it clips along and doesn't get too bogged down in its own concepts. There are some really good horror scenes- the bit with the tunnel, and the last scene with JD particularly stand out- and there's a lot of love for music in the book. It did occasionally edge into "everything is soulless, mass-marketed, palatable porridge" territory, but it's also a book about a bitter ex-musician who unknowingly wrote a semi-prophetic metal album, so I'm cutting it some slack.
Despite the fun I had with it, I didn't quite click with it in the way I was hoping to, but I do want to see if I can find some metal bands I do click with, so there's that. Also, physically, the book is awesome to look at.
We Sold Our Souls is a fun horror book about making music and making a mark on the world and also everything being commercialized. The word "fun" sounds a bit weird considering it starts with Kris living a life she hates and honestly things get worse from there, but it is! Tonally and pacing-wise, it clips along and doesn't get too bogged down in its own concepts. There are some really good horror scenes- the bit with the tunnel, and the last scene with JD particularly stand out- and there's a lot of love for music in the book. It did occasionally edge into "everything is soulless, mass-marketed, palatable porridge" territory, but it's also a book about a bitter ex-musician who unknowingly wrote a semi-prophetic metal album, so I'm cutting it some slack.
Despite the fun I had with it, I didn't quite click with it in the way I was hoping to, but I do want to see if I can find some metal bands I do click with, so there's that. Also, physically, the book is awesome to look at.
