Book Review – The Hospital – Toby Litt
Book Review – The Hospital – Toby Litt Sex, death, drugs, Satanism, voodoo – when things start to go wrong at hospital, who knows where it will end? This is a journey to hell and back. I am not entirely sure where to start with reviewing this book, one reviewer on GoodReads opened their review […]
Book Review – The Institute – Stephen King
Book Review – The Institute – Stephen King Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts – telepathy, telekinesis – for concentrated […]
Book Review – Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
Book Review – Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher Clay Jensen returns home from school one day to find a mysterious box with his name on it, outside his front door. Inside he discovers a series of cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker – his classmate and crush. Only, she committed suicide two weeks earlier. […]
Book Review – Firestarter – Stephen King
Book Review – Firestarter – Stephen King Andy and Charlene “Charlie” McGee are a father/daughter pair on the run from a government agency known as The Shop. During his college years, Andy and his future wife, Victoria, participated in a Shop experiment dealing with “Lot 6”, a drug with hallucinogenic effects similar to LSD. The […]
Book Review – The Chalk Man – C.J. Tudor
Book Review – The Chalk Man – C.J. Tudor In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy little English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code; little chalk stick figures […]
Book Review – The Woman in the Window – A.J. Finn
Book Review – The Woman in the Window – A.J. Finn Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbours. Then the Russells move into the […]
Book Review – Elevation – Stephen King
Book Review – Elevation – Stephen King Although Scott Carey doesn’t look any different, he’s been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. First thing I will say about this book is ‘It’s […]
Book Review – Carrie – Stephen King
Book Review – Carrie – Stephen King I have been thinking about doing this for some time, but after putting it off for far too long, the time is nigh, time to read every Stephen King book, in order of date of publication, a chance to see how his writing style has developed over the […]
Book Review – Just After Sunset – Stephen King
Book Review – Just After Sunset – Stephen King I think the best way to break this review down is to give a brief overview of each story and then add my thoughts after, so here goes:- Story 1 – Willa After a train derails leaving its passengers stranded, David Sanderson’s wife wanders away from […]
Book Review – The Outsider – Stephen King
Book Review – The Outsider – Stephen King I was a little worried about reading this book initially, my most recent book before this one was the joint effort from Stephen and his son Owen, Sleeping Beauties, which if I am totally honest about, was a terrible book, which was a real struggle to get […]
