Books & Reviews
"Words used to be art. In their creation. In the act. And thus the words were art in their very being. Forget the reader. Just don't forget the impetus. Christian Fennell never did. One of the rare few."
-The Prague Revue
"A violent fu•king poet."
- Josip Novakovich
"In essence, the author has created a work of art in word form."
- The US Review of Books
"Fennell’s haunting and poetic prose takes readers through the Godforsaken terrain of rural America on a wild ride to its stunning and heartbreaking conclusion."
- San Francisco Book Review
"Many of Fennell’s stories, which employ different narrative techniques, create effective tension and suspense."
- Kirkus Reviews
"Christian Fennell's novel presents a vivid, soul-searching account of life and death in America."
- Midwest Book Review
"This dark coming-of-age story will impress readers with its distinctive writing and intense, at times violent, story."
- Booklife Reviews
"At times THE FIDDLER IN THE NIGHT is a thriller reminiscent of the dark, intense work of Cormac McCarthy. At times it’s a coming-of-age tale, or a precise portrait of middle America. It manages to be all these things, while also telling an absorbing story. This is a cat-and-mouse tale set in grand, lonely landscapes and peopled with characters that feel achingly real."
- Neon Books, UK
"If you mashed up parts of McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and Camus’ The Stranger, added side characters too peculiar to make any draft of Through the Looking Glass, minced up a whole lot of southern gothic vibes, topped it off with a handful of pulverized mushrooms, and then drank the concoction, that might put you somewhere in the vicinity of New Arcadia. Which is where this story begins."
- Author, Jason Arias
"Haunting and ethereal, Fennell's stand-alone The Fiddler in the Night is a masterpiece of reflection that is at once gritty, disturbing, and hard to put down."
- Midwest Book Review
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