schmidtytwoshoes 's review for:

Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

3.5

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is hard to rate, I’d probably give it a 3.5 rounded up for it doing exactly what it was meant to. I hated the main character most of the book but he’s supposed to be pretty irredeemable. I will say, this was supposed to be a horror book in the rotation and the first two days of reading I couldn’t put it down at all. I’m still mad I was made to sympathize with the main character but I suppose that was the whole point. I really enjoyed how southern the book felt throughout, you could really tell the characters were from Florida/Louisiana region and it was all so tragic. Good but heavy read, I need some light nonsense after this one