Not scary at all... Vic McQueen has a very unique gift, she can travel to different places by way of a magic bridge that she makes appear with her trusty bicycle (and later on motorcycle). But there is someone else that has this gift. A man named Charlie Manx has the same gift with his antique Rolls-Royce. And Charlie manx is not a good guy. When Vic goes looking for trouble one day she ends up finding Manx. After that her life will never be the same. Okay I would just like to say that I read this book because it was our book club pick for the month of July and because people were broadcasting this to me as one of the scariest books they had ever read. Let me just assure you, this book is not scary in the least. I don't even know if this could be classified as a horror book but rather more of a thriller with some horror elements in it. Please don't get me wrong, it's not that the book was bad in any way because it was very good and very well written. It's just that I can't seem to see where exactly this book was scary. Ania Ahlborn books are much scarier (just an example). I don't know maybe I'm being too harsh on the book because it didn't scare me personally. Obviously this book has scared others in the past. Taking up the baton for his father Joe Hill writes in very much the same writing style as Stephen King. There is a whole lot of fluff in this book. Lots of stuff that doesn't really need to be there for the story to take hold. Their writing styles are almost line-by-line similar. I did want to say that I found the little mentions of previous Stephen King novels within this book very refreshing as almost like an honor to his father and his work. It was very sweet. And he did it in a way where it wasn't in your face. He just sprinkled them in and it was very well done. I found all of the characters to be believable and relatable and the storyline to be quite engaging. The ending was great but I sort of felt that it was almost like a video game that I was playing through the book. The buildup of the levels that Vic goes through are very reminiscent of something that harkens back to my childhood like the Super Mario Brothers games. I found myself very much anticipating the end boss fight. She even gets a significant power up with some major explosives before moving on to the final level at the end 😉. All in all this was a fun read and I'm glad to have read it. I would definitely recommend this book to people who enjoy good thriller books but maybe not necessarily horror in general.
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