Battle Royale of strengths and weaknesses
I remember
looking at this book at my local Barnes & Nobles years ago, I was strangely
drawn to the title and it's meaning which always puzzled me but the cover was
intriguing, not sure what took me so long to read it but I’m so glad that I
finally dived in. Sometimes it's hard to pick a new book to read but it's still
a delicious torment even if you don't know what is good enough to wrap your
mind around, this was a good pick and it was recommended by a friend so I read
it with pretty high expectations. In a funny way this book shows the power of
love and also it's opposite which is
very driven dark side and even in real life those can be close so making
it into a striking, dangerous and scary story was great. Both good and bad
things can be done in the name of love, each pushed by an intense energy that
seems to beam out of us at certain times, and it's most potent when it's real.
The Heart Shaped Box is a great example of mental surgery; the amount of
thought that will go into creating this world and it's characters is immense
but it also has to be pure, it needs to come from the heart. It's a story told
by a man who took the courage to pick up the pen ( or the laptop) and write it
all down, Joe Hill is very good and I can see him having a great career in the
literary world, having a genius father ( Stephen King) doesn't hurt either
hehe.
Making a
purchase doesn't seem to be a scary thing unless one is buying something grand,
a mansion or a fancy plane, an island or special car, it's a choice we can take
with relish unless it goes wrong. Jude
Coyne buys a haunted suit and he definitely gets what he pays for, it arrives
in a black heart shaped box and once that lid is off his life starts to go on a
dangerous decline, those close to him are in an intense danger and the only way
to stop the horrific power behind the purchase seems to be sucked straight out
of hell. Coworkers and friends start dying but they aren't gone and neither is
the power that pushes them to their demise. Connected to his past, the suit is
not an ordinary object but a weapon, Jude must figure out who really is behind
it and how to get rid of it or be forced to end his own suffering. I gripped
the pages at the end and cheered a few times and also felt some sadness, this
hit all sorts of high points for me, a perfect example of a good book.
This story
reads almost like a fantasy tale that takes the reader on a ride, I would read
out passages to my boyfriend and we'd follow the story together at the end
because he would ask me what happened every few hours ... it's a fun yet
pungent read, don't be fooled that this is some cute story, there is death and
there is intense danger and stress, but oh so well woven together, I enjoyed it
tremendously and cant wait to read more form Hill. This is part mystery, part
horror and a whole lot of fun intensity, good stuff.
- Kasia S.
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