This makes them allies even as they doubt each other. They have nothing in common except for a very funny and awesome shared taste in music (you’ll never guess) but they each need someone to watch their back. “We have to watch out for each other on the road,” Melanie said. Some, such as the one between Melanie and Kris, are based on simple truths: Some of the character interactions in the book are based on long experience, or greed, or ambition, or resentment, or love.

Thus sparks her road trip, which intersects with Kris’. Melanie, who is a fan, decides that moving to Las Vegas and seeing the concert will let her make a new life. Meanwhile, across the country, Melanie is waiting tables and waiting for her life to kick into gear when she also sees a billboard featuring Koffin. Did someone’s souls get sold? If so, whose, and to whom, and for how much?.Why are people dressed as UPS drivers trying to kill Kris?.What happened to Dürt Würk’s lost album, Troglodyte, which told a story of the Blind King, who sees all from Black Iron Mountain in a hole in the center of the world?.Things escalate quickly and surprisingly and just keep going, while Kris attempts to solve mysteries like:

Soon Kris is desperately trying to find the remaining former band members while avoiding murderous assassins. Alas, all is not well with Scottie, who is living in his basement and using a cell phone wrapped in tin foil. Seeing a billboard of Koffin’s upcoming concert leads Kris to reconnect with an old band mate, Scottie. Her band was poised for stardom when their lead singer, Terry, split off to form his own group (Koffin). Our story begins with Kris Polaski, who was once the lead guitarist of a heavy metal band (Dürt Würk) and who now works the night shift at a Best Western where one of the regulars likes to pee on the lobby floor at three AM. A girl with a guitar never has to apologize for anything.” Hell yeah. Many a shitty day has come and gone, but I have persisted fueled largely by the words, “She didn’t worry, she didn’t smile, she didn’t feel out of place. I love We Sold Our Souls so much that returning it to the library is going to cause me physical pain.

We sold our souls book review