Descripción By Joe Hill

Definition: nosferatu, German word for vampire. 'Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on'.An extremely dark, chilling & gruesome fantasy with complex, twisted characters. If you love a classical horror, then this book will definitely not disappoint.As a huge fan of his father's work, it is extremely difficult not to compare Joe Hill's books with his, not least as his father even briefly mentions one of the core character's Charles Manx in his book Doctor Sleep! However, this hasn't just been published off of the back of his father's success, rather it is a wonderful book in its own rights. I was gripped by this book from the very first page, my only gripe being, I felt it was possibly a tad too long. That said, I very much look forward to reading from Joe Hill. Descripción Imagine Neil Gaiman's “American Gods” combined with Clive Barker's “The Great and Secret Show” and that will give you an idea of the style of dark fantasy this is.Essentially it's a story about inner worlds brought into a space where others can experience them. Vic (our hero) learns she can find lost things. She allows her mind to drift while riding her bicycle and finds her way onto a bridge that will lead her to whatever she is looking for. One day she looks for trouble and find it in the shape of Charlie Manx. Manx is a very bad man, who believes he's a very good man. He abducts children and takes them to a special place called Christmasland, which exists in his head but can become real for the children he takes there. He drives a car, an old Rolls Royce, with the number place NOS 4R2.If you, like me, enjoy your horror with plenty of fantasy, this is a book I am sure you will love. It's one I am likely to return to again and again, as I do with American Gods and The Great and Secret Show. Descripción As a huge fan of Stephen King I had no other choice than finally start reading the works of his son. I started the book without any expectations or making comparisons to the first and best works of King. First of all, Joe Hill definitely has the talent of his father, but writes his own story. Of course a self driving and thinking car does ring a bell, but the fantasy world in which the characters move and transport themselves is quite original. Hill makes the evil person also partly human, as he is convinced to do a good deed taking away children from deformed households and bringing them to his Christmasland, which changes the kids forever Just read it, don't want to spoil to much of the content and story! Descripción

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Victoria McQueen has a knack for finding things. Riding her bicycle through an old covered bridge, she always emerges where she needs to be. But Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability no one would believe her.

Charles Talent Manx has a gift of his own. He takes children for rides in his 1938 Rolls Royce Wraith, and they slip away to an astonishing playground he calls Christmasland. But the journey through Charlie's twisted imagination transforms his precious passengers, leaving them as terrifying and unstoppable as their benefactor.

And then comes the day when Vic goes looking for trouble . and finds Charlie.

That was a lifetime ago. Now, the only kid ever to escape Manx's unmitigated evil is all grown up and desperate to forget.

But Charlie Manx is on the road again, and he won't slow down until he's taken his revenge.

As a life and death battle builds her magic pitted against his Vic McQueen prepares to destroy Manx once and for all .

Disturbing, mesmerizing, and full of twisting thrills, Hill's phantasmagoric, devilishly playful masterpiece is a terrifying high octane ride.

El libro: un 8/10 Joe Hill es un gran autor, y ha venido mejorando, aunque la historia es muy fresca y puede llegar a enganchar muy rápido, tiene momentos muy lentos y el final bueno, que decir, le aprendió al papá en los finales muy estrepitosos pero con poca Descripción As usual, I won't put story spoilers in the review (a personal hate of mine), but briefly the book is a kind of horror/sci fi crossover with attitude just like papa used to make! (Think Salem's Lot sort of, without the bloodsucking and heavily salted with abilities akin to those found in The Shining etc.). The heroine is a youngish girl who is initially gifted with an ability to travel short or long distances using a kind of psychic link via a non existent 'covered' bridge, a bicycle that's meant for a bigger boy and a desire to go to whatever place is foremost in her psychic mind's eye. The villain, who has a completely potty sidekick, one of a long line apparently, is a cadaverous, murderous, lifeforce draining 'vampire' (definitely not in the Stoker sense of the word), who drives an old Rolls Royce which is seemingly complicit in his warped paedophilia and this tale is the story of the girl and the effect the bad guy has on her, particularly when he finds out she's like him in her 'gifts', but is the light to his dark side. Again, these are just the protagonist and antagonists and Mr. Hill has clearly inherited Dad's skill for spooking the doodah out of the reader in a twisted, seemingly unending ghost train sense and I won't go into the meat of the book (pun intended), but for a late night, well written, decently long and by no means dull, creepy bit of modern American horror literature, it absolutely hits the spot and has future movie/mini series plastered all over it. It's cleverly crafted to build tension, get you thinking it can't get worse and then Oh Boy! Terrific read by a skilled fright master and in no way a rehash of his famous father rather, a standalone scare scribbler in his own right. Descripción NOS4R2 is a novel that does a few of my favourite things. We follow a heroine who’s a mother, but being a mother isn’t all she is – in fact because we get to know Vic McQueen long before she becomes a mother herself, we already have a sense of who she is – and she’s a mother who has to save her child from a villain she herself faced in her childhood. I love stories about parents trying to protect their children from the kinds of mistakes they made in their youth, especially in fantasy, so this book was always going to be up my street.As a child Vic had a bike that could take her anywhere she needed to go, often when she was looking for lost things. Charlie Manx and his 1938 Rolls Royce take children away to Christmasland, and it’s nowhere near as idyllic as it sounds. Then again, neither is Manx. When Vic goes looking for trouble, finds Manx and becomes the first child to ever escape from him, Manx returns years later to get his own back – by taking Vic’s son, Wayne, instead.I love Vic. She’s a messy and messed up human being, but that doesn’t stop her from being a character we want to see thrive or a character we can sympathise with. One of my favourite things about this book was that Hill doesn’t pretend that, after escaping Manx, Vic is perfectly fine and gets on with her life. Almost dying at the hands of someone who’s been stealing children for years isn’t the kind of thing anyone could simply get over, and Vic lives with what almost happened to her, and what did happen to her, for the rest of her life. Surviving something like this means surviving it every day afterwards, and Vic struggles – especially when there’s no one she can tell about her bike that could help her find things without ending up in a straitjacket.In fact there weren’t many characters I disliked. Obviously Manx and his assistant, Bing, aren’t the kind of people you’d like to meet in a dark alley, but they’re still characters that are understandable. I could have done without all the mentions of how Bing liked to sexually assault the mothers of the children Manx stole, but if I’m going to continue to read horror then sexual assault is something I’m probably going to have to get used to seeing.I loved the other characters, though, such as Lou and Wayne. I loved how much Wayne loved his parents, and how much he was like an adult in the body of a 12 year old and had to be to deal with the parents he had. Not because they’re bad people or even bad parents, but because both Vic and Lou are still dealing with old hurts that they haven’t been able to grow away from. His relationship with Vic and Lou was lovely, as was Vic and Lou’s relationship. I loved them as a little unit of three, and Lou was such a sweetheart.Much like everyone else he wasn’t perfect, but he was inherently good and exactly what Vic needed. I did start to get a little frustrated with how often his weight was brought up; I understood that Lou was obese, I didn’t need it brought up every single time he was on the page. I just feel like Lou deserved a little better than that. Having said that, considering his weight was something he hated about himself, I did love that it was often brought up when we were following Lou himself, and yet whenever Vic thought of Lou she never mentioned his weight at all. Instead she talked about how safe he made her feel, how she loved the way he smelled, and how much a genuinely nice guy he was. That was a clever narrative choice on Hill’s part, and it said a lot about how we perceive ourselves vs how other people perceive us.It worked both ways, too. Vic thought of herself as a failure throughout the majority of her adult life, but Lou and Wayne never did.Hill played around with perspective really well when he wrote Vic’s parents, too. When Vic is a child who’s close to her father and idealises him, her mother seems like a terrible and incredibly annoying parent. It’s only when Vic’s older that she’s able to appreciate her mother and acknowledge that, while she thought the world of her father, he wasn’t actually the best person and he certainly wasn’t a good husband.Despite this book being on the chunkier side, with my edition almost 700 pages long, it’s very readable and a book I moved through quickly. That said, for as long as it was I was surprised we didn’t spend time in Christmasland and there are a few scenes that probably could have been cut. I was never bored, though, and whenever I put it down I looked forward to picking it up again.But I am surprised this didn’t frighten me! Bing was annoying than intimidating, although knowing what he was doing with the women they kidnapped was disgusting and I wanted him dead, but I’m surprised by how much Manx didn’t frighten me, and I was expecting him to. Just the name ‘Charlie Manx’ sounds like it belongs to a serial killer, the kind that true crime podcasts would obsess over, but I was never scared of him. Would I want him turning up at my house? God no, but I think this is the kind of horror novel that I’m going to remember for its protagonists than its antagonists, and to be honest I’m fine with that. I love Vic, and I can’t wait to try of Hill’s work. Descripción La historia es buena y siempre te mantiene volteando las páginas, sin embargo no me pareció que fuese terror, pero eso no le resta puntos a la lectura. Le doy 4 estrellas por el envío, los encargados de entregar el paquete no pudieron ubicar mi domicilio y tuve que ir a Descripción Es una novela muy interesante y amena, con personajes bien desarrollados. El autor se esforzó por separarse de varios clichés y lugares comunes de las novelas de terror, así como de su herencia, aunque hace algunos guiños a Dr. Sleep y a It. Descripción