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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (2011)

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Review by CJ

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Page count:
353 [excluding credits, acknowledgments, a conversation with Ransom Riggs and a preview of Hollow City]

Format:
Paperback

ISBN:
978-1-59474-603-1

 

When Jakob’s grandfather is killed under horrific circumstances, Jakob travels to the children’s home his grandfather spent time in as a child hoping that the trip will enlighten him on his grandfather’s past. Jakob discovers that the fantastic stories his grandfather told him were not only real but now lead him to a renewed purpose in his own life.

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The Fireman by Joe Hill (2016)

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Review by CJ

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Page count:
752 [including credits and acknowledgements]

Format:
Hardcover

ISBN:
978-0-06-220063-1

 

A deadly spore has infected most of the planet’s population causing them to spontaneously combust. When Harper Willowes becomes infected, she is happily married and working as a volunteer nurse around the clock to ease the suffering of those afflicted with Draco incendia trychophyton.

When the tell-tale black and gold markings appear, confirming that she has contracted the disease, Harper’s world turns upside-down. She discovers that she is also pregnant and that her husband isn’t the man she thought he was.

Harper flees her home and is rescued by John Rookwood, AKA The Fireman. John takes Harper back to a secluded camp where people with Draco incendia trychophyton hide from the extermination crews and learn to coexist with the spore that inhabits their bodies. But can a new community coexist with each other over the long term or will the camp erupt while the rest of the world burns?

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End of Watch by Stephen King (2016)

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Review by CJ

End of Watch

Page count:
432 [including author’s note]

Format:
Hardcover

ISBN:
978-105011-2974-2

 

When a mother and daughter connected to the Mercedes Killer incident commit suicide, private investigator Bill Hodges and his eccentric business partner Holly Gibney are brought in to consult.

When the police turn their backs, Bill and Holly stay on the case. What they discover will challenge them beyond anything they have experienced before.

End of Watch is the final book of the Bill Hodges Trilogy which includes Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers.

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Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (2014)

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Review by CJ

Mr Mercedes

Page count: 437 [includes one page author’s note]

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Scribner

 

When Detective Kermit “Bill” Hodges retires, he leaves with several cases unsolved. Though none haunt him more than the Mercedes Killer. A killer who used a stolen Mercedes to plow through a crowd to murder eight people and injure countless others. The case is revived when Hodges receives a taunting letter from the killer. The letter reignites Hodges’s desire to catch the killer and he brings himself unofficially out of retirement to investigate. After all, the killer may have written to say they will never kill again, but the killer doth protest too much.

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NOS4R2 (UK) or NOS4A2 (US) by Joe Hill (2014)

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NOS4R2

Page count: 692 [Including the acknowledgments because if you skim or skip the acknowledgements you get a free trip to Christmasland. No, no – that’s not a good thing.]

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Gollancz

 

When Victoria ‘Vic’ McQueen was a young girl she had a gift for finding things. She would jump on her bike and cross the Shorter Way Bridge to wherever the lost item could be found. When Vic has a fight with her mother and father she goes looking for trouble and finds Charles Manx with a gift of his own. Manx has taken hundreds of children away from their parents to the Christmasland with the promise of a world where fun rules and unhappiness is against the law. Vic barely escapes from Manx and he is locked away in one prison or another until his death. But Charles Manx is not the sort of man to let a little thing like death stop him and now Vic must save her son from Manx before it’s too late. Before he can’t be saved. Before he doesn’t want to be saved.

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