{"id":21659,"date":"2024-07-24T09:29:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21659"},"modified":"2024-07-24T09:29:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:29:47","slug":"book-29-of-52-nos4a2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/book-29-of-52-nos4a2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 29 (of 52) – NOS4A2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NOS4A2 – Joe Hill<\/p><\/div>\n

Using her oversized bike, young Victoria McQueen has the uncanny ability to use an abandoned bridge to find missing things, something she tries to rationalize away as she gets older.\u00a0 When she goes looking for the Wraith, a 1938 Rolls-Royce used by Charles Talent Manx to kidnap children and bring them to Christmasland, where he uses their life forces to keep himself young and vibrant.\u00a0 The encounter between Victoria and Manx leaves the former a broken shell of her former self and the latter in prison, accused of kidnapping and sexual assault.\u00a0 Years later, after his car is restored by an unwitting father, Manx returns, going after Victoria and her son.\u00a0 Can she stop Manx before he brings her child to Christmasland?<\/p>\n

Way back in 2017, when I finished Joe Hill’s The Fireman<\/em><\/a>, I said “I still have Hill\u2019s other 2 novels waiting on the Kindle app.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure that it won\u2019t take me another 4 years to get back to them.”\u00a0 Seven years later, I finally got to one of them, NOS4A2, which was published in 2013.\u00a0 While I enjoyed this work, it did suffer from some of the same issues I had with the previous works of his that I’ve read, mainly going on and on when a tighter edit could have led to a better result.\u00a0 He hasn’t published a new novel since 2016, so I still have just the one waiting to read.\u00a0 Here’s hoping it won’t take another seven years to get to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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