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Thirteen Storeys - Jonathan Sims
Nov. 23rd, 2022 11:18 amI have to confess: I listened to the first couple of episodes of season 5 of The Magnus Archives, and I'm......... really not feeling this show anymore. :/ I might eventually take another shot at actually finishing TMA, but in the meantime, I've discovered that Jonathan Sims (The Real One) is a true modern triple threat (musician! podcaster! author!) so obviously I picked up his 2020 debut novel, Thirteen Storeys.
The title is a pun on both form and concept: thirteen short stories set in the same thirteen-story apartment complex, building towards the mysterious death of a billionaire with blood on his hands (not a spoiler; you learn this in the prologue). I tried not to assume that it would be "TMA, but a book," but honestly, that's not far off— it's similar in the way that the individual stories build up to their respective horrors, and the way that everything knits together at the end. ( spoilers )
The title is a pun on both form and concept: thirteen short stories set in the same thirteen-story apartment complex, building towards the mysterious death of a billionaire with blood on his hands (not a spoiler; you learn this in the prologue). I tried not to assume that it would be "TMA, but a book," but honestly, that's not far off— it's similar in the way that the individual stories build up to their respective horrors, and the way that everything knits together at the end. ( spoilers )
