Review - Heart-Shaped Box

[wilderthan]

I enjoyed reading Heart-Shaped Box, but I don't think Joe Hill is quite mature in his writing yet. The pace of the book seemed a little odd to me, and it didn't actually grab hold of me and keep me going -- I was curious as to how it'd all turn out, but the narrative itself didn't keep pushing me through it. The characters are interesting but not really truly engaging, and the idea is a little creepy but not enough to keep me up at night or even to make me all shivery. Some of the formatting was irritating and kind of threw me out of it, too -- the whole sections of italicisation.