Sacrificial Animals
Pedersen maintains a sense of doom, building suspense and expectation ... Pedersen weaves eerie sentences together from archaic language, and the novel builds with a gruesome, anxious energy as the author reveals its connection to Chinese mythology ... The novel’s final pages are a wild frenzy of beauty, vengeance and viscera.
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Pedersen is a great writer with a strong voice and an obvious love of language that manifests itself in the use of uncommon words like “eidolon” and “demesne" ... When it comes to trauma and atmosphere, the writing shines ... When it comes to romance, the writing turns a little melodramatic and florid ... Luckily, the tension and violence outweigh the romance, and the result establishes Pedersen as a future master of speculative fiction.
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Tense, lush, and laced with beautifully engineered dread, this is a special book ... Pedersen joins the ranks of horror’s great prose stylists ... There’s a remarkable restraint in Pedersen’s story structure, yet the book never feels like it’s spinning its wheels.
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