I'm gonna start reading Light tomorrow. I know you'd expect the reviews at the start to be flattering, but they make it sound exceptional. The rating on Goodreads is something like 3.6 out of 5, but I'll take that with a pinch of salt after trudging through some awful 4.5s.
Speaking of which, I finished reading The King in Yellow, the book that inspired True Detective. There are 8 short stories. The first four interconnect and deal with "The King in Yellow", a book which drives anyone who reads it in its entirely... INSANE. Which is how I felt by the end of this. Those first four stories are creepy and original and have this great concept, but then for some reason the remaining 4 stories have no relation to them whatsoever. One's a passable "she was dead aaaaallll along" tale, then there's a war story and finally two dreadful romance snoozefests about bohemian arts students in Paris. I was disappointed. It really felt like it was leading to something.