Review: "The Secret Journal of Ichabod Crane" by Alex Irvine

You definitely need to be watching the TV show Sleepy Hollow for this book to make sense. Although the front cover mentions this, I didn’t notice this feature. As much reading as I do, I have never read Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow and thought this would deal with the original book in more detail, not the television show. Also, fantasy is not a favorite genre of mine to read.

Because of the details above, I found this book hard to follow. Towards the end, I did get the gist of the storyline. As the title says, this is Ichabod Crane’s journal. He has awakened in 2013 to fight the devil and the four Horsemen. He must rescue his wife from Purgatory because she is the only one that can stop the second Horseman.

Despite the above, Alex Irvine did a fantastic job of filling in the details on the characters and what had and was occurring. I basically understood what was going on, without the benefit of seeing the show. I enjoyed his descriptions of Ichabod’s thoughts on all the modern conveniences, from the IPhone to computers, electric and running water. He also provided interesting insights on baseball, football and our modern clothing and fabric.

I would definitely pick up another book by this author. I liked his writing style and his handling of the characters.