Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Vir2ous if O4ly Long

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

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It’s the mid eighties, the land of Stranger Things nostalgia, and eight year old Victoria ‘Vic’ McQueen (aka The Brat) has just discovered something interesting: if she hops on her bike and cycles through to a certain spot in the woods by the river, a magic bridge will appear. Whenever something has been lost all Vic has to do is cross the bridge and she will end up where the lost object is. But something else is lost as well: across the country, young children […]

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 […]

Like father, like son

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I mentioned in my review of Horns last year that if I had Stephen King for a father, I wouldn’t have been a writer for love nor money. The shadow he casts is impressive, to say the least (and Mr Mercedes is imminent, about which I am very excited). So if it were me, the prospect would have been too daunting to undertake. But Hill dropped his family name and tried for as long as possible to keep his origins out of the press. It wasn’t that long, since […]

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

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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 […]



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