Tales from the gas station volume 5

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Drunk customers. Shoplifting raccoons. Otherworldly visitors. As night shift clerk at the hour gas station at the edge of town, Jack has pretty much seen it all. That is, until his best friend reveals the body of a local politician hidden in the trunk of a car, setting off a chain of events with apocalyptic potential. Soon, Jack finds himself entangled in a supernatural conspiracy involving monster hunters, sociopaths, doomsday cultists, and…garden gnomes? Armed with nothing but his wits, sarcasm, and alarming amounts of coffee, can Jack stay alive long enough to see another morning shift?

Tales from the gas station volume 5

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While none of the books in the series managed to garner a 5-star review from me, I obviously enjoyed them enough that I kept on reading them, almost one after another. Hurry up!

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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…. As the only full-time employee at the twenty-four hour gas station at the edge of town, Jack has pretty much seen it all. But when he decides to start an online journal documenting the bizarre day-to-day occurrences, he unwittingly attracts the attention of much more than just a few conspiracy theorists. With the body count steadily on the rise and a dark, ancient force infecting the dreams of everyone around him, Jack will do everything in his power to stay out of the way and mind his own business. Besides, he already has his hands full attempting to manage all those mysterious lawn gnomes, the mutant raccoons, and the charming phantom cowboy who lives in the bathroom.

Tales from the gas station volume 5

Updated: Apr 3, I know I've mentioned this before, but time moves strangely at the gas station. Compounding the confusion, I haven't always been the most ardent supporter of linear storytelling. Some of my tales run concurrently with others. Some, I don't even remember writing This is going to be my best attempt at ordering the tales. But remember, I have an infamously shaky memory and a long history of imagining things.

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I enjoyed the series, but this 4th installment felt disjointed and incoherent. The chapters are a little more flippant, a good deal shorter in spots and the sheer weirdness seems - surprisingly enough, maybe even arguably so - to be somewhat more muted. Plus, it's very very apparent that foster care is a legal way of being a complete and utter douchebag, which we get to see first-hand Sid and Dianna immediately got placed on my early "I hope they get devoured first by the unholy terror" list. Add to Wish List failed. We had to make a polo-shit-khakhi-shorts huwite man character who is suddenly racist and that is FREAKY, but the fact this whole town is mega fucked is Weird and wonderful book, the best ending I can imagine to a quirky, smart, fun series. Jerry's footnotes throughout the book were a brilliant idea as well, and they definitely added humor in places where it was deficient. Soon, Jack finds himself entangled in a supernatural conspiracy involving monster hunters, sociopaths, doomsday cultists, and The series had set up a lot of plants that I was expecting to have a satisfying payoff. Despite its faults, it's a fitting end to an incredibly weird and wonderful series. There were so many memorable moments in this book. The end is nigh! Michelle L Besing. God, that was so annoying. Jack Townsend.

Drunk customers. Shoplifting raccoons. Otherworldly visitors.

I think several of the subplots should have been split off into short stories and not included in this novel. And its satisfying and funny and informative and weirdly cozy. While it has considerable faults in my opinion and wasn't quite the conclusion I was hoping for, I can't say that it entirely disappointed me, and I think the series is worth a reread in a year or two — if only to catch all the little details that I keep thinking back on! The balance of Jack's mourning along with all that is going on waves hand vaguely is at once much more touching on an emotional level but also more than a tad disorienting. So many laugh out loud, weird, mysterious, and downright ridiculous passages that will force me to reread or probably listen to the audiobook when it comes out again in the future. The very end has some clever misdirection and the author obviously knows half the books made no sense, which is good. Chris Cohron. Anyway, I really did enjoy a lot of this book thanks to the writing style and the ever-classic characters we know and love. Yet I still feel like the very end was just a little anticlimactic. Lynn K. Besides, I usually feel the same way about most horror stories. A lot of fun never a dull moment! It really felt like the author just needed to virtue signal just a little. Cool cool. A bunch of it was probably random ideas that didn't always end up working in the grand scheme of the narrative, but by then it was too late to retcon everything.