Horns: A Novel – Joe Hill

While reading other people’s lists of books they’ve read in this elusive challenge, I kept coming across the name Joe Hill, who just so happens to be the middle son of Stephen King.  When Amazon had a special on the Kindle-edition of this, his second novel, for $1.99, I figured what better time to see if the apple had fallen far from the tree.  I must admit that, at first, I wasn’t really feeling it with this book, but eventually I was drawn in and liked it enough to pick up Hill’s first novel when it was available for the low, low price of $1.99.

Horns: A Novel tells the tale of Ig Perrish, who, a year after being blamed for the rape and murder of his girlfriend Merrin Williams, awakes one morning to find a devil’s horns growing out his head and diabolical powers at his command.  He uses those powers to find out who is truly responsible for Merrin’s death and to gain vengeance for it.

Hill’s style, at least the one he used for this book, took a while for me to get in to.  Once I did, though, I ripped through the book, finishing the last half of it in the past 2 days.  I’m looking forward to reading more of his work, with his first novel waiting in my Kindle app and his latest due out next month.