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Advantages: Good characters
Disadvantages: Book doesn't end so much as peter out

...attention because it was in the crime fiction section, which is not where I would expect to find a Stephen King novel. As the novel was so short and Stephen King usually writes much longer books, I thought it must be another Stephen King. It was, however, by the Stephen King, so intrigued, I took it home. The book is included in a series of books called Hard Case Crime and was reminiscent of books by the likes of Dashiell Hammett and other authors ...
...as Carrie, Dolores Claiborne and The Shining. This book was a relief to King's fans, who had heard rumours that his novel-writing days were over. The story Stephanie McCann is a twenty-one year old intern at a newspaper on a small island off the coast of Maine. Her colleagues, the ninety year old Vince Teague and sixty-five year old David Bowie, pleased with her progress, tell her of an unsolved mystery a few years before. A man was found dead by ... Read review

Advantages: Varied style, action-packed, vivid illustration.
Disadvantages: Short, stereotype ridden.

...King uses the lunar cycle as a loose means of telling his tale with monthly events being his mode of presenting the story yet again confounds the reader in that littered throughout are vivid illustrations of action sequences presented in an anime/comic book style. Perhaps, it is just due to the novels short length that these illustrations are often more descriptive than the words of King himself. King has a penchant for experimentation and this ...
...are taken with the lunar cycle so those events such as Valentines Day can be exploited as unusual settings. King's obsession with small town America in particular those created by him in his home town of Maine leads to a book of stereotypes from self righteous vicars to disbelieving townsfolk. However, this is not a book in which to dwell on the details. I have already hinted at the importance of the illustrations in this book and I feel I should ... Read review