This is my first Joe Hill and I ate it up. Kate Mulgrew read this audiobook into a page turner, I haven't gone through a thousand pages this quickly ever! Even The Stand and Pillars of the Earth took over a week.
Unlike those books this story didn't drift, I didn't feel one or two hundred pages could be cut here or there. It was a tight thousand pages, if you can wrap your head around that.
There were times I thought I was reading King. The only differences I could point to were a lack of sex and that wild, semi hysterical and depraved humor that's hard to describe.
Anyway, so few laughs here but a fast pace of small town heroes with special powers and lots of love fighting a seemingly immortal evil force. Sounds familiar, right King fans? He doesn't let us down. One of my favorite things about reading King is all the little references to his previous works, it makes you feel included, a true citizen of Kinglandia. Joe does the same, tying the lands of the junior and elder King together, along with various others, to create one large inscape; a mad alternate reality it is our dark pleasure to visit.
A must read for Horror Aficionados everywhere and a personal four point five for me that I happily round up for truly excellent readability.
Awesome! I need to read this book at some point as I heard so many good things about it. :)
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