Showing posts with label Stephen King. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen King. Show all posts

Friday, 17 January 2020

REVIEW: Mr Mercedes (#1) - Stephen King

Title: Mr Mercedes (#1)
Author: Stephen King
Series: Bill Hodges Trilogy
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback
Pages: 357 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver ploughs through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes.

In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime. When he gets a crazed letter from someone who self-identifies as the “perk” and threatens an even more diabolical attack, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing another tragedy.

Brady Hartsfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with two new, unusual allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Brady’s next mission if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.

Friday, 27 September 2019

Supernatural-athon

I am really over-exerting myself this month, I'm joining in with the Hocus Pocus Readathon, I'm also taking the kids to Disneyland and now I have decided to join in with the Supernatural-athon (what am I thinking?)

Photo from Supernatural-athon twitter

Monday, 28 August 2017

REVIEW: The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (#1) - Stephen King

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (#1) - Stephen King
Series: The Dark Tower
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Audiobook
Time: 7hrs 19mins
Narrator: George Guildhall
Rating: 2/5 (It Was OK) ★★


Goodreads Blurb

In the first book of this brilliant series, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, The Last Gunslinger.

He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues The Man in Black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the Kid from Earth called Jake. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter.