![]() This is like mash of popular horror movies, tv series and books. It seems like a great short story topic but reading a book which has tons of pages was a little enthusiasm breaker. The ghost is so adamant to ruin his life! ![]() And his late purchase was way too much he already bargained for: the guy just bought a ghost inside a heart shaped box! I know he is weirdest kind of shopaholic but even he didn’t deserve this kind of punishment! A story circled around retired rocker who has a strange taste to collect things. I think I should wear sleeveless shirts for a long time!)īut here is the problem: the storyline of the book was so promising. But long paged readings never scared me and I never cared to look like a member of wrestling team with my swollen biceps! ( they look like somebody regularly pumped air into them. So I cut the cord and get the book into my hands even though it hurt my arms because it is heavier than dozen bricks. Guess what, my friends, I might have made the wrong reading choice to celebrate the horror week on Goodreads and Halloween month! Don’t get me wrong, I read so many works of Joe Hill and this book already get rusty and dusty for waiting inside the stomach of my tbr monster forever! only for mentioning cool people like Nirvana, Ozzy, and Jackson Browne. Oh BLAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! I give it one star. could it be molestation? NO! I'M SHOCKED! WHAT A GENIUS PLOT TWIST!), and everything ends all happy, with smiles and rainbows and love and hugs. It's not scary, it's TOTALLY BORING, it's predictable (oh, let me guess, the depressed ex-stripper/groupie/20-something goth girl who's sleeping with a 50 year-old ex-rock star has a secret about her stepdad. Given that the story itself isn't even original, what else have we got here? Heh. First of all, the fact that an ageing rock star buys a ghost on the net isn't even a new idea: Man, this thing reads like something an 8th grader wrote for his creative writing class. Then I read that the author is King's son? Wow, if I were King I'd be disappointed in my kid. Right up to the last page of Heart Shaped Box, I kept waiting for something scary, and when that didn't happen, I kept thinking that horror should be left to the masters, that the reviews about this book were false advertizing, and that the only true horror writer is Stephen King. When you're traumatized from what you've read, you know you've found a good horror author. I even thought back to Red Dragon by Harris, the book that I couldn't read unless my boyfriend was there. "Heart Shaped Box" also made me think back to other King novels that had me ready to piss myself with terror: Cujo, Salem's Lot, The Tommyknockers, etc. it was storming outside, it was 3AM and I was too afraid to put the book down, and I didn't care if I would end up wetting the bed because there was no way in hell I was going to get up and go to the bathroom. The cover of this book promises that you will be "haunted" and "startled," and that the book will even "visit you in your dreams."įunny, as I read this "scary" novel, I couldn't help but think back to the time I read The Shining. Links to the author’s personal, Tumblr and FB pages Hill has more than realized his potential since then, establishing himself as one of the premier writers of horror working today. The guy has talent, and I expect there will be much more product in the years to come as he follows in daddy’s footsteps. What makes it special though is that Joe Hill just happens to be the son of none other than Stephen King. Although I have read better horror books, this one turned out well enough. I was not ecstatic early on about the premise, as I believed it was insufficient to sustain a book of this length. I was most reminded of Freddie Krueger, as the hostile ghost sets out to destroy Coyne and all those he holds dear. When aging, retired rocker Judas Coyne buys a ghost on-line, he gets more than he bargained for, as the ghost, which arrives by way of a used suit in a heart-shaped box, is no blithe spirit.
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