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Ain’t no sunshine (The Collection)

Strange Weather by Joe Hill

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Try and contain your shock, but a book by Joe Hill is dark. I’m used to the horror author writing books that have a macabre bent, but this was less “skeleton and ghost dark” and more “I’m gonna curl up on the couch and remind myself that this is fiction dark.” The collection is four novellas connected loosely by abnormal weather – lightning storms in “Snapshot,” a firestorm in “Loaded,” an unusual cloud in “Aloft” and fulgurite rain in “Rain.” But the darkest part of each of the stories is the people, not the supernatural elements.  “Snapshot,” “Aloft,” and “Rain” were […]

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7/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:57 |

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

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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 Florida. You get it. At the beginning of the book he is contacted by a […]

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5/20/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:276 |

NOS4A2

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

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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 the New Black. She is a powerhouse of a woman, with a wonderfully gravelly voice […]

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2/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Episode 1-08: I Always Thought That’d I See You Again

The Fireman, The Way of Kings, The Stainless Steel Rat Sings The Blues, The Prince of Mist by Joe Hill, Brandon Sanderson, Harry Harrison, Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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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

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2/26/2018 's CBR10 Review No:25 |

Strange weather, good stories

Strange Weather: Four Short Novels by Joe Hill

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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 nothing but enjoyable to read and he shines in this collection of short stories, where […]

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2/23/2018 's CBR10 Review No:10 |

In which Joe Hill takes one step closer to becoming the world’s greatest Stephen King impersonator.

Strange Weather by Joe Hill

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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.” Because I feel like the first and last stories — “Snapshot” and “Rain” — really […]

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1/17/2018 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

Things just keep looking darker and scarier for the Locke children

Locke & Key, vol 4: The Keys to the Kingdom by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez

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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 to be attacked more and more frequently and only towards the end of the volume […]

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12/31/2017 's CBR9 Review No:130 |

Audiobooks and Orphans

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; Strange Weather; Seven Japanese Tales; Trash; Beasts of the Southern Wild by Rachel Joyce; Arthur Conan Doyle; Doris Betts; Dorothy Allison; Joe Hill; Junichiro Tanizaki

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Miss Queenie – 4/5 Stars This is a brilliant follow-up to The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry that came out a few years earlier. Like very few, but very potent sequels, this one eclipses the original. While the original book is heart-warming and touching, something akin to the Straight Story meeting BBC2, this book is downright beautiful and devastating. Harold Fry was about a man who receives a simple and cryptic postcard from a former colleague from the time he worked for a local brewery. His relationship with Queenie remains quite understated throughout that novel but it’s clear throughout that there’s […]

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12/8/2017 's CBR9 Review No:478 |


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