Heart-Shaped Box
It’s a good thing Joe Hill chose a pseudonym to avoid comparisons to his famous father, otherwise I might not have picked up his amazing first novel Heart-Shaped Box. The book is really scary and, like all good ghost stories, firmly rooted in the emotional lives and painful pasts of it’s characters. By the end, the novel it most reminded me of was Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones, but that’s not to say it doesn’t stand on it’s own original, creepy merits. Highly recommended.
July 29th, 2007
July 30th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Neil Gaiman is also a big fan. I’ll have to put this down on the old list…
July 30th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
[…] Bonus: Soon I Will Be Invincible was a wonderful read (and over all too soon). Next up? Heart-Shaped Box, which comes highly recommended. Plus: A friend just got back from ten days in Denmark. Now if he’d just post some photos from the trip. And: I feel like I killed seen heard read. The last post came just after James met me, and he hasn’t posted since. […]