I will add that I have only read 3 out of the 4 books in this collection. Being a long time Stephen King fan, I decided to see if his son could sling verse in the same fashion as dad. I have added Joe Hill into my favorite authors. This led me to the author pages and more Joe Hill books. I was pleasantly surprised to see that they were not just clones of Heart Shaped Box.
I frequently stopped just to appreciate some of the humor.Īfter finishing this book, I read the preview pages for other Joe Hill books. It was quite, and well, understated and dry, or even droll. And then there is the humor which I found mostly in dialogues. It was easy for me to miss them and I found myself going back to make some connections. There are many important clues and seemingly off-hand comments that are not hidden in the story, but they seem to occur in the middle of fast action segments.
That is not something to do with this book. When there are so many strange and weird things happening at the same time, I tend to read faster. This is a very fast moving story that demands reader attention. The shifting is sometimes aided and sometimes inhibited by music. There is a lot of shifting realities between inhabitants of the dead and the living. There is also Anna, Craddock’s daughter who committed suicide. Father Craddock (the vengeful ghost) is not the only ghost popping in and out of the sensibilities of Jude and Georgia. Other important allies are grandma Bammy, a couple of dogs, and Jude’s comatose father. She becomes an important ally of Jude’s in the fight with the ghost. She feels an imminent separation is coming, although she is still in love. When the ghost first appears, Jude is with his latest girl, Marybeth (aka Georgia). No problem, Jessie will just send her father’s ghost to Jude a wrathful father will, for revenge, take Jude’s life. The instrument for vengeance will be the father of Anna and Jessie. She decides that there must be revenge Jude must pay with his life. She killed herself and Sister Jessica blames Jude. He sends them away, but he made a mistake with Anna (aka Florida). Eventually somewhere in the relationship the girls bore him. He seems to focus on those who have been hurt, perhaps by parents, perhaps by society in general.
Jude is a 50 year old plus retired metal musician whose music still is loved by the teen and pre-teen crowd. As I read the other novels in this four novel collection, I will append their reviews to this review. This is a review of "Heart Shaped Box" a novel in its own right and reviewed elsewhere here.
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