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Joe Hill

Start date: December 22, 2017

Finish date: December 30, 2017

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Aug 01, 2015 Krissy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: buddy-read, audiobook, pgs-600-or-more, title-number

This would have been so much better if it was about 200 pages shorter

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Oct 25, 2017 Heather - hturningpages marked it as didn-t-finish · review of another edition

Shelves: i-really-tried-to-like-this

So I got about 30% through this audiobook and then just got too grossed out and depressed. Maybe I'll try to give this another try some other time but I feel like there is no one to root for in this book which is a huge turn off for me. And it's a shame because Joe Hill has the same creepy, supernatural edge to his writing as Stephen King which makes the reader always question what is real and what isn't. But once my favorite character started talking about wanting to leave her husband and son I ...more

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Oct 28, 2013 Jayme Pendergraft rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2013, src-fall-2013

A twisted take on never ending Christmas in Charlie Manx's Christmasland. It was suspenseful, funny, scary, and retro all at the same time. One can't help but compare Hill to his father and I often found myself thinking of Pennywise the Clown as Manx's character developed throughout. I also appreciated the small mentions of King's world throughout the novel.

The end was explosive (literally) but it just felt a little too long to me. Otherwise, a great effort from Joe Hill. I'm excited to read mor ...more

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Jan 30, 2014 Andria rated it really liked it

I cursed myself a few times for reading this book right before bed. Scary on a surface level - young kids being kidnapped and taken to a place called Christmasland by a vampiric old man in a Wraith. Scarier on a human level - living through losing the innocence of childhood.

Recommended!

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