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Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Middle-aged rock star Judas Coyne collects morbid curios for fun, so doesn’t think twice about buying a suit advertised at an online auction site as haunted by its dead owner’s ghost. Only after it arrives does Judas discover that the suit belonged to Craddock McDermott, the stepfather of one of Coyne’s discarded groupies, and that the old man’s ghost is a malignant spirit determined to kill Judas in revenge for his stepdaughter’s suicide. Judas isn’t quite the cad or Craddock the avenging angel this scenario makes them at first, but their true motivations reveal themselves only gradually in a fast-paced plot that crackles with expertly planted surprises and revelations. View this book on Amazon. |
Review
Rating: 7
It started off really well with me thinking this would be a book I’d plow through. At some point it started to drag a bit and lose me, but when I was thinking of giving up it picked up again and got quite interesting causing me to fly through to the end. The story is a little spooky but without being downright scary, and while the characters are interesting I felt that you didn’t REALLY get to know them very well. For some reason I kept imagining the main characters as 30 something, rather than mid 50′s as he was meant to be. I don’t know if that was because of his profession (a rock star) or the attitude he was given, but when I was reminded that he was actually 54, it irritated me because it didn’t jive with the image I had in my head.
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