My husband listened to this on audiobook and said, "You should buy this. It's like John Dies at the End. You'll love it." This adventure was so crazy, so interesting, so quaint, so creepy, so funny, and soooo… cozy. Well, it’s closer to witty jokes, nevertheless, I was openly laughing quite often. The dialogue is mostly good, thanks in part to the humorous approach, and while character development only really occurs with our MC, it's done well and the whole story is focused on him, not the other players, who mostly have small parts to play here and there. Most of the events and strange occupancies didn't seem to fit together very well. Many things were also not properly explained or tied in which left me feeling more confused than anything else when finishing the book. Another thing you should remember is that you can’t knowingly go there. No matter what you do, how drastic, it is not possible.

So, the best advice I can give you, is to break this one up into two or three parts. Read something in between, just to keep the humor fresh.With an unreliable narrator, cosmic horror and the perfect adhd induced plot, I think the term suspending disbelief might be be too shallow of a phrase, maybe catapult or torpedo sane rational thought out the window instead? What keeps this one from failing is the humor and the MC, who stumbles through the story without ever actually DOING very much. Normally, this would pull me out of the story a bit, but here, it works very well, leading to many laugh out loud moments throughout. Occasionally, the humor falls flat, but it's so rare--and even when it does happen, it's always immediately followed by a nugget of gold--it doesn't detract from the overall experience. I was not disappointed at all. Fast read, very interesting, prose is very different from anything I’ve read in a while and just an all Working at a dead-end retail job in the middle of nowhere can be hard. The long hours. The helpless customers. The enormous eldritch horror living deep below the building…

This was...fine. Perfectly fine. Imagine "Welcome to Night Vale" but focusing entirely on the bleak and the absurd. The protagonist is dying from a neurological condition that causes permanent insomnia and we see the strange things he witnesses working the nightshift at a run-down petrol station in the rural American South. How much is real? How much is delusion or hallucination? We have only his word to go on.What can I say? This book really surprised me. I liked the title and read the synopsis and thought “what the hell, I’ll give it a shot”.

But, once I tell you, you will never forget it. And you’ll be surprised by the number of times it happens to you. It doesn’t matter what you call that place, the name will probably differ from person to person. Going in I was expecting more of a strange and creepy read. It turned out to be more of a humorous story that got downright silly and unbelievable at times. The situations are over-the-top ridiculous and the characters wandering through the gas station are hilarious. I laughed out loud too many times to count.Honestly, it wasn’t quite a book I’ve read. It was several days I’ve lived through on this nowhere gas station.