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Author: Joe Hill
Genre: Horror
Length: 692 pages
Published: 2013
Publisher: William Morrow
Brief Synopsis: (Taken from Goodreads) Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it’s across Massachusetts or across the country.
Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing – and terrifying – playground of amusements he calls “Christmasland.”
Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble—and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx’s unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He’s on the road again and he’s picked up a new passenger: Vic’s own son.
My Review:
Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing – and terrifying – playground of amusements he calls “Christmasland.”
Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble—and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx’s unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He’s on the road again and he’s picked up a new passenger: Vic’s own son.
My Review:
I give this book a 5 out of 5.
This is one of those books that just sticks with you. I finished it last weekend and am just now getting around to writing the review, and it's still fresh in my mind as though I just read the last sentence minutes ago.
Charlie Manx is a terrifying villain. He takes children to Christmasland - a place in his mind where the children are trapped and he is able to feed off of their life forces to extend his own life. When Vic McQueen goes looking for trouble in her teens (after years of not using her own inscape), she ends up getting him arrested.
About half of the book deals with Vic's childhood and how she gets Manx arrested. The other half of the book deals with Vic's adulthood and the downward spiral her life takes. When Manx's body disappears from the morgue, she's just beginning to get her life back on track. And then her son disappears. What follows is her harrowing journey to escape the FBI agents, who think she's responsible for her son's disappearance, and to find her son.
What I loved best was the way the author would end a chapter part way through a sentence. The end of the sentence was the name of the next chapter. This really upped the tension and I couldn't flip the page fast enough to find out what was going on. Horror lovers will love this book.
You can purchase NOS4A2 through Amazon in hard copy or Kindle format.
This is one of those books that just sticks with you. I finished it last weekend and am just now getting around to writing the review, and it's still fresh in my mind as though I just read the last sentence minutes ago.
Charlie Manx is a terrifying villain. He takes children to Christmasland - a place in his mind where the children are trapped and he is able to feed off of their life forces to extend his own life. When Vic McQueen goes looking for trouble in her teens (after years of not using her own inscape), she ends up getting him arrested.
About half of the book deals with Vic's childhood and how she gets Manx arrested. The other half of the book deals with Vic's adulthood and the downward spiral her life takes. When Manx's body disappears from the morgue, she's just beginning to get her life back on track. And then her son disappears. What follows is her harrowing journey to escape the FBI agents, who think she's responsible for her son's disappearance, and to find her son.
What I loved best was the way the author would end a chapter part way through a sentence. The end of the sentence was the name of the next chapter. This really upped the tension and I couldn't flip the page fast enough to find out what was going on. Horror lovers will love this book.
You can purchase NOS4A2 through Amazon in hard copy or Kindle format.
Have you read NOS4A2? If so, leave a comment and let me know your thoughts!
Please note: I was not compensated in any way for this review. It is strictly my opinion.
Please note: I was not compensated in any way for this review. It is strictly my opinion.
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