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manikahemmerixh 's review for:
Heart-Shaped Box
by Joe Hill
Heart-Shaped Box tells the story of Jude, a now middle aged mostly former rockstar who buys a ghost off the internet. Sounds like a fun, spooky ghost story but that’s not what I’d call this.
Yes, there are ghosts but the plot at its core is a story of revenge, not an accidental haunting (which is what I had thought I was getting into from the summary). The main protagonists, Jude and his girlfriend Mary Beth grew on me a lot. They’re flawed but you don’t want to see harm come to them. I also really liked the voice of this story, the characters different accents and dialects come to life from the page.
I just wish I had had a more clear idea of what I was getting into. I think that Jessica Price could easily be introduced into the blurb without giving the intricacies of the story away. She’s introduced within the first 50 pages anyway. I had prepared to be spooked, but really only got a little chill here and there and a lot of heavy themes instead. That’s the ball you roll with adult horror novels though. I think, had I not been looking for a different kind of ghost story, I may have even rated this higher.
Yes, there are ghosts but the plot at its core is a story of revenge, not an accidental haunting (which is what I had thought I was getting into from the summary). The main protagonists, Jude and his girlfriend Mary Beth grew on me a lot. They’re flawed but you don’t want to see harm come to them. I also really liked the voice of this story, the characters different accents and dialects come to life from the page.
I just wish I had had a more clear idea of what I was getting into. I think that Jessica Price could easily be introduced into the blurb without giving the intricacies of the story away. She’s introduced within the first 50 pages anyway. I had prepared to be spooked, but really only got a little chill here and there and a lot of heavy themes instead. That’s the ball you roll with adult horror novels though. I think, had I not been looking for a different kind of ghost story, I may have even rated this higher.