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BY JOEL FRANCIS
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t's October, which is my favourite month of the year! The weather is getting cooler, the colours on the trees are aesthetically pleasing and, of course, it's Halloween. Here are 3 spooky books that I recommend you read this month!
NOS4A2 Joe Hill Genre: Horror/Thriller For Fans Of: Stephen King What’s in the pages? Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things, all she has to do is go on her bike across a rickety covered bridge, and she will find whatever you are missing. Charles Manx is excellent with children; he takes them for long rides in his RollsRoyce Wraith with a NOS4A2 vanity plate. He takes them to the mysterious Christmasland. When Vic goes looking for trouble one day, she finds Manx and becomes the only kid ever to escape his grasp. But now Manx is out for revenge and is after Victoria's own son. Why should you read it? This book is such a ride, but an enjoyable one, not like being in the back of Manx's Rolls-Royce. As a horror author, Hill has a lot to live up to considering he is Stephen King's son. However, he is a fantastic horror writer in his own right. This book feels like Stephen King at his best, without the disappointing endings or massive plot holes that King's writing has been known for. The story is fun, perfectly paced and impressively creative. Joe Hill must adapt his books so that they have claws because this book had me hooked and dragged into the story from the very first page. NOS4A2 is filled with charismatic characters in a world similar to our own but at the same time very, very different. The most impressive part about this book is that you live alongside Victoria McQueen from the first page until the very last, even when you aren't reading it. Her adventure is always on your mind, and that is the mark of a fantastic book!
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GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2020
