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Nobody wears this much armor unless it has been hurt by someone who had no reason to hurt him.

Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

May 20, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This book presents the same interesting challenge that I like in a book: how to deal with an absolutely bad protagonist. I don’t mean uncompelling, but a bad dude. And not actually one super interested in redemption. He kind of is by the end, but only because of the costs he incurs throughout the book. Jude is a semi-retired heavy metal rock star. He’s got a young girlfriend he calls Georgia, from where she’s from. He’s also recently broken up with another similar girlfriend named […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Heart Shaped Box, joe hill

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:276 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Heart Shaped Box, joe hill ·
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NOS4A2

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

February 6, 2019 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

What a journey I had with this novel. I am, at least in name, a member of a horror book club that one of my pals put together. This was the selection, so, like a dutiful book club member I picked it up. The waitlist was forever long for the novel but eventually, the audio was available and I dug in. I was positively delighted to discover that the narrator was Kate Mulgrew, aka Captain Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager and Red from Orange is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: joe hill, nos4a2

cheerbrarian's CBR11 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: joe hill, nos4a2 ·
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Episode 1-08: I Always Thought That’d I See You Again

February 26, 2018 by prisco Leave a Comment

https://killingmykindle.com/2018/02/26/episode-1-08-i-always-thought-that-id-see-you-again/ Wherein I Review: 22. The Fireman by Joe Hill 23. The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archive #1) by Brandon Sanderson 24. The Stainless Steel Rat Sings The Blues (Stainless Steel Rat #3) by Harry Harrison 25. The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: brandon sanderson, Carlos Ruiz Záfon, cosmere, Harry Harrison, joe hill, killing my kindle, podcast, prince of mist, stainless steel rat, stainless steel rat sings the blues, stormlight archive, the fireman, The Way of Kings

prisco's CBR10 Review No:25 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: brandon sanderson, Carlos Ruiz Záfon, cosmere, Harry Harrison, joe hill, killing my kindle, podcast, prince of mist, stainless steel rat, stainless steel rat sings the blues, stormlight archive, the fireman, The Way of Kings ·
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Strange weather, good stories

February 23, 2018 by MrsLangdonAlger 1 Comment

To say Joe Hill is the next Stephen King is no surprise: he’s King’s son, after all. And it says great things about him because Hill writes fantastic horror stories (long and short), the same way his father did. But it also means that any time I read a book by Hill, aside from the absolutely brilliant Locke and Key series, I’m also wondering when he’ll find his own voice, and branch out a bit more from his father’s footsteps. That being said, Hill is […]

Filed Under: Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: joe hill

MrsLangdonAlger's CBR10 Review No:10 · Genres: Horror, Short Stories · Tags: joe hill ·
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In which Joe Hill takes one step closer to becoming the world’s greatest Stephen King impersonator.

January 17, 2018 by scootsa1000 3 Comments

I’ve said this before: I can’t imagine it would have taken very long for the reading public to figure out that Joe Hill was really Joe King if he hadn’t admitted it himself. And in each book of Hill’s that I read, I see more and more of his dad in the writing. In fact, if you told me that two of the four novellas in Strange Weather had actually been written by Uncle Stevie, I would just nod, and say, “of course they were.” […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: #CBR10, joe hill, Scootsa1000, Stephen King, Strange Weather

scootsa1000's CBR10 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories · Tags: #CBR10, joe hill, Scootsa1000, Stephen King, Strange Weather ·
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Things just keep looking darker and scarier for the Locke children

December 31, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

SPOILER WARNING! This review may contain some spoilers for the plots of the two volumes in question.  In volume 4, Keys to the Kingdom, the three Locke siblings are still fighting against the Dark Lady, whose inhabiting the body of the person they think is their friend Zach. He’s posing as Kinsey’s affectionate boyfriend and Tyler’s loyal friend, trying to get one of the siblings to reveal where the crucial and powerful Omega key is hidden. Over the course of this volume, the Locke children seem […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: cbr9, clockworks, fantasy, Gabriel Rodriguez, Graphic Novel, horror, joe hill, Locke & Key, Malin, the Keys to the Kingdom

Malin's CBR9 Review No:130 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery · Tags: cbr9, clockworks, fantasy, Gabriel Rodriguez, Graphic Novel, horror, joe hill, Locke & Key, Malin, the Keys to the Kingdom ·
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