A review by jeffliu
Sky Saw by Blake Butler

3.0

Butler assaults the reader with terrifyingly beautiful and fascinatingly horrific prose. The text reads like a hallucinogenic-fueled fever dream with brief flashes of lucidity. However, for all its style and experimentation, it ultimately falls flat due to Butler's reluctance to concede enough coherence to advance a plot. This leads to a tedious and middling last half of the book. The language is indeed beautiful and masterfully challenging, but it is not enough to redeem the lack of momentum and development.