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Probably don’t get this book in place of a Valentine: This is not the kind of Heart Shaped Box your sweetie wants

February 1, 2014 by NTE 2 Comments

(Unless your sweetie is, like me, a fan of creepy books.  In that case, this might suit her/him better than the box of candy you had planned on.) Is it a sin to treat people as if they are disposable?  If you don’t think so at the beginning of this creeper of a novel, I guarantee that you will by the end.  (You will also probably believe in ghosts.) (And never lock your dogs out of the room ever again.) The main character of Heart […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Creepy, Heart Shaped Box, horror, joe hill

NTE's CBR6 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Creepy, Heart Shaped Box, horror, joe hill ·
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NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

That Looks Nothing Like Nosferatu, Mr. Hill (A Robert CBR6 Review)

January 23, 2014 by Robert 1 Comment

In NOS4A2, Joe Hill takes his remarkable eye for detail and applies it to a wide and expansive universe full of rich, memorable characters. The general throughline is Victoria McQueen and the discovery of inscapes. As a child, Victoria (or Brat, as her father calls her) finds out that if she rides her bike fast enough, she can make a demolished bridge appear that leads her to whatever she looking for. A fight with her parents leads her straight into trouble: a serial child abductor […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: horror, joe hill, nos4a2

Robert's CBR6 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: horror, joe hill, nos4a2 ·
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