Welcome to Night Vale

*1.5 stars. This just wasn't for me. The inside joke isn't funny when the inside doesn't exist. It brought to mind the TV show Fargo, which is loaded with meta but plays it just right and builds real characters that you care about. This book did not. The best bits were the The Voice of Night Vale radio sessions with Cecil, descriptive and funny and fantastic, and that makes me wonder if remaining a podcast might have been the proper choice here. Again, just not for me.