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Pros & Cons
Pros
Hill introduces a character who keeps a paperweight on their book, and the paperweight is a literal chekhov's gun. Hill keeps the novel refreshing with every chapter and heartpounding up until the final revelation within the last couple pages.
Vic the brat mcqueen is a girl from massachusetts with a gift for finding lost things. Charles talent manx is a vampire from colorado. He takes the children there to christmasland where it's christmas every day.
Cons
The book is overlong and overstuffed. Chapters consisting of half a paragraph. I have no idea how much text is missing.
Joe hill is a capable writer, but his plots are more sick than they are weird and thrilling. Hill shows a great deal of respect for the famous english poet, gerard manley hopkins, yet shows no inclination to try to emulate hopkins’ wonderful use of th... Read More
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Quality
I ordered this edition thinking it's the cover with the gingerbread man (as indicated in the picture) but i got the one with th... Read More
The author brings you to the edge of hopefulness before slamming you to the hollows of despair with the characters.
He uses his car, a 1938 wraith with the license plate nos4a2 to access his inscape.
Price
The price was about half of the cost that i saw everywhere else.
Packaging/appearance
This is the second joe hill solo novel i've read and the story is a wild ride through both reality and alternate reality with p... Read More
Competitiveness
This bridge is her inscape, her access to the world we live in our minds, separate but also on top of the physical world.
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- This product had a total of 7,077 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 7 2022.
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I ordered this edition thinking its the cover with the gingerbread man as indicated in the picture but i got the one with the smashed mosquito
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However there are pages that just end mid sentence as if it wasnt fully printed on the page
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It was so good i didn’t want to put it down but had to make myself just to catch my breath from the intensity
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Every single second of this book will have you on the edge
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So much happened in the book that didnt in the show
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I went into this novel blind as a bat having bought it because it was on sale on the kindle store
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It gave so many chances to fail but it consistently wrapped it back around and thats where i think the novel excels
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Imaginative moody based in the human heart and not reliant on shock factor for any part of the novel
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