"It’s rare to find a first novel with the depth, clarity, and complexity Weston Ochse’s Scarecrow Gods. The author seems to have dragged his characters form his own Land of Inside Out, kicking and screaming. Crazy men who speak in palindromes, anagrams, and metaphors while running to escape their past. An Alexian monk without faith who can’t help getting fired from each new task, but still wants to do combat with demons. Boys being boys and the horrors of lands far away and days gone to dust dredged up to hound and confront everyone involved." - DNW