If you're not already fully immersed in the world of Nightvale I would suggest you go and listen to a few of the podcasts and, if you like them, listen to all of them and then listen to this. It's funny and weird and charming and disturbing as ever. It's very, very surreal and does assume your previous knowledge and acceptance of, for instance, faceless old women who secretly live in your home, dog parks, sentient houses, and angels (who don't exist).

If you don't already love Nightvale then you will be confused and possibly angry. If you already love Nightvale then you will love this as a hugely extended episode.

It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries and their futures.if they can ever find it.

Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger and stronger interest in his estranged father, leading to a disaster Diane can see coming, even as she is helpless to prevent it.ĭiane's search to reconnect with her son and Jackie's search for her former routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words: 'KING CITY'. And lately Diane's started to see her son's father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City before she herself unravels.ĭiane Crayton's son, Josh, is moody and also a shape-shifter. She can't seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked 'KING CITY' by a mysterious man in a tan jacket. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge. (Oct.Night Vale is a small desert town where all the conspiracy theories you've ever heard are actually true. This unusual experiment in format-shifting works surprisingly well. Fans will find it refreshing to see Night Vale from different perspectives and to meet characters who have only been mentioned before in passing, but knowledge of the podcast isn’t required to follow the story. Though the book meanders a bit in the middle, the end is satisfying, with a surprising origin story for one of the characters. Diane and Jackie have to work together to peel back the mysteries surrounding King City while trying to protect their loved ones. After peculiar, half-remembered encounters with a man in a tan jacket, both women keep coming back to the same phrase: King City. The novel follows Diane Crayton, whose shapeshifting son’s absentee father has just come back to town, and Jackie Fierro, who’s been the 19-year-old proprietor of Night Vale’s pawnshop for the last several decades. Fink and Cranor, co-creators of the popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast, successfully expand the mythology of their strange desert town.

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