Joe HillNOS4A2 (REISSUE)

What an amazing story teller Joe Hill is. It's not very good to compare him with his father but when I started to read this unconsciously I was comparing both of them. But honestly say, after few chapters it's all gone and uniqueness of his writing pretty visible.In this story we see Victoria McQueen has a ability to find lost things by using her cover bridge. And this ability is actually become her curse of life. At teenage when she was distributed for her mom and dad's separation she rode her bike for trouble and her cover bridge take her to Charlie Manx's slaidge house. Manx has his own ability. He drove a classic wraith and abduct children to a place called Christmasland, where those kids become different (say evil). Like a vampire Manx suck them and gain his lifeline. Victoria McQueen not only escaped but able to comprehend him to law.Now after 12 years when vic has a son, Charlie Manx has returns to take her son and avenge her. How will she save her son and bring her back from Christmasland?All character development is just fantastic. Victoria McQueen is one bad ass women who struggling her life from very childhood but she is unbreakable. Lou is a sweetheart who always stood by her at any cost. The character of Maggie touch me the most. Bing the gas mask man, the most creepy psychopath ever read. And last but not the least Charlie Manx the main villain is the notorious and evil man who can gives you a nightmare. A big thumbs up to this book which have fantasy, tragedy, love and horror altogether.

Victoria McQueen’s son has been taken by Charlie Manx, the same man who destroyed her life when she was a child. Using her gift for finding things, she is now the only person who can stop Manx from claiming yet another child’s soul[ for immortality (hide spoiler)].This is my second Joe Hill book and I think the problem I have with his books is that I can't seem to care about the main character. At all. Hill seemed to go to great lengths to have the reader sympathise with Vic, which is what made the book extremely long and unnecessarily so, and I just could not for the life of me care about her at all. In fact I think I gave more of a damn about her son Wayne and husband (?) Lou, which is why I’m even giving this a 3 star rating – the ending was excellent, more I felt because of Wayne and Lou than Vic.I really feel the book could have been much shorter and as a result perhaps more gripping than I found it. Although it claims to be thrilling and terrifying, I did not find the book scary - Charlie Manx was cartoonish, if anything, and Manx’s minion, Bing, was quite disgusting, and more often than not annoying with his excessive rhyming and singing. For the most part I was quite bored with all the elaborate descriptions of trivial characters and events, which is probably why it’s taken me – what? – two months to finish this book.So, while this does have a high rating on Goodreads, I am in the minority with my take on this particular Joe Hill novel. It had its moments but in the end I'm only going to remember it as that book that took me two months to finish.

Good read... Not scary enough though

Too long to keep you engaged and involved throughout the story. Yet, such an engaging story that you'd make the effort to power on through it.And that's the main reason why I rated it lower than I normally would have - cuz I was pushing myself to finish the story and, as enjoyable as bits of the book were, was finding it tough to find a way to keep in sync with the characters or the story.I will say this though. Joe Hill has a knack for writing that will keep him embedded deeply in this genre for a lot longer than this book. And I'm looking out for more of his works that I can read.

El libro llegó en muy buen estado, ningún problema con las páginas.

Brilliant story. Great characterisation. He really knows his horror genre. Now I'm off to read all of his other books! My new favourite author!

Sem comentários

I don’t know why some words are missing from the end of the chapters? Is it supposed to be like that or is there a problem with my kindle?

Hey boys and girls, want to go for a ride to Christmastown? Mr. Manx has a fancy car and he would love to take you there.In my personal opinion, NOS4A2 was completely flawless. The thought process to pull everything together is something that is rarely seen in a book of this size. The characters are so well developed, I feel like I know them personally and am connected to them. Joe Hill has done an excellent job of pulling everything together to create a masterpiece of fiction. He has taken that old expression, “the truth is stranger than fiction”, stomped on it, spat in its face, and said, “Oh yeah, I’ll show you strange!”This is one of those books that I can see some crazy producer turning into a feature film, but leaving much of the details out and not doing the story justice. Although I would go to see it, to see Vic, Lou, Manx, Bruce Wayne and Christmastown brought to life.