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inulroApologies for the delay; LJ code is now breaking work's IE - I can read posts but not comments and I can't post - and turning on the computer at home is something I rarely do.
18. NO5 4R2 by Joe Hill
This one's about a girl with a none too happy home background who uses her bike to ride over a bridge that no longer exists to find missing things. As she grows up it gets harder, and then she finds that there's a Very Bad Man using the same pathways ("inscapes") to kidnap children and take them to Christmasland. She battles him and comes out ahead.
That's the first third and it is amazing; I found myself staying up far too late one evening to get through the first scary part.
It sadly goes off the boil after that. She ends up being a very troubled adult because she thinks she imagined all this stuff and she keeps getting phone calls that no one else can hear from the children trapped in Christmasland because she put their captor in jail.
Even the final third, where he comes back from the dead and kidnaps her own son, just didn't do it for me.
This really, really felt like a Stephen King book (Hill is King's son), but King would have done a better job. There's even (I think, I finished it weeks ago) a reference to the nomadic people in RVs who are the villains of Doctor Sleep.
19. A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin
If I'd read the paperbacks this would count as 2; but I took it on holiday with me on my Nexus 7 and it was cheaper to buy it as a single volume.
More of the same, but the last couple hundred pages are un-put-downable.
18. NO5 4R2 by Joe Hill
This one's about a girl with a none too happy home background who uses her bike to ride over a bridge that no longer exists to find missing things. As she grows up it gets harder, and then she finds that there's a Very Bad Man using the same pathways ("inscapes") to kidnap children and take them to Christmasland. She battles him and comes out ahead.
That's the first third and it is amazing; I found myself staying up far too late one evening to get through the first scary part.
It sadly goes off the boil after that. She ends up being a very troubled adult because she thinks she imagined all this stuff and she keeps getting phone calls that no one else can hear from the children trapped in Christmasland because she put their captor in jail.
Even the final third, where he comes back from the dead and kidnaps her own son, just didn't do it for me.
This really, really felt like a Stephen King book (Hill is King's son), but King would have done a better job. There's even (I think, I finished it weeks ago) a reference to the nomadic people in RVs who are the villains of Doctor Sleep.
19. A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin
If I'd read the paperbacks this would count as 2; but I took it on holiday with me on my Nexus 7 and it was cheaper to buy it as a single volume.
More of the same, but the last couple hundred pages are un-put-downable.
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Date: 2014-05-20 02:32 am (UTC)