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CSeydel
Needful Things | Stephen King
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My #trappedinaspookyhouse holds came in at the library! [Not pictured: Reaper Man, on Kindle]

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bekakins
Needful Things | Stephen King
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Here‘s your picks @CSeydel - happy reading 🎃
1. Needful Things (one of my faves!)
2. The Turn of the Screw
3. Reaper Man
4. In Cold Blood
5. The Trees
So hard to pick only 5!
#trappedinaspookyhouse

CSeydel Great choices!! Thanks! 👻🎃🏚️ 1mo
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Blh87
Needful Things | Stephen King
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Bailedbailed

I made it through 320 pages of being bored and depressed and I‘m giving up. Maybe an 800 pager wasn‘t my best first go for Stephen King, but I‘m not sure I enjoy his weird need to sexualize things. Also, I wasn‘t scared a single time…just depressed. He killed off an abused woman‘s dog. Hadn‘t she been through enough already? I certainly didn‘t need to read about the puppy being killed…

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TheBookgeekFrau
Gwendy's Magic Feather | Richard Chizmar
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Eggs Great choice 👏🏻👏🏻 7mo
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WeAreLegion
Gwendy's Button Box | Stephen King
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Mehso-so

As a riff on the famous Matheson short story, THE BOX, this is ok. It is very short and can be read in one sitting. Don‘t know why it took two authors to write this (co-written by Richard Chizmar), it‘s like something King could have spit out in his sleep. Decent, but not essential.

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Robotswithpersonality
Gwendy's Magic Feather | Richard Chizmar
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Mehso-so

I had a decent time with this book, but I'm finding it impossible to categorize for the sake of recommending it to the right audience.
A bunch of cozy moments, even set around Christmas/New Years holidays, but also worrying about political situations, social issues, parent's health, husband's well-being, the doom that the button box might unleash, and missing girls. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Less out and out horror moments now that King's not co-writing, a bit more focus on missing, possibly murderered people, wouldn't say it's full on fantasy considering that there are fantastical premises but not much in the way of fantastical moments. There is the theme continued from the first book of the box's potential influence and destructive power as well as it's rewards, but it too felt like an element that was downplayed this time. 10mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/? Somewhere between jarring and unexpectedly pleasant that these books contain formatting I'm more used to associating with middle grade novels: Larger, more spaced out text, short chapters, illustrations dividing some chapters.
Paranormal suspense? And yet, not kept in suspense about anything for very long.
10mo
Robotswithpersonality 4/? Were it not for a few key details I'd consider this cozy speculative, but there's definitely some not for kids stuff here. I think Chizmar's writing shines in cozy mystery-adjacent with speculative elements. Hopefully that doesn't lead prospective readers too far wrong! 10mo
Robotswithpersonality 5/6 Going back to my qualifier of 'decent', there's a lot that almost happens and doesn't, and then there's an element that pops out of nowhere to save the day, and those two things in the same narrative make it feel less about the plot and more about the characters. 10mo
Robotswithpersonality 6/6 I'm happy to finish out the trilogy, though having experienced Chizmar's writing alone, I'm a little concerned what having King re-join the co-writing team for the third book will do for Gwendy. Hoping for the best!

⚠️child death
10mo
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Robotswithpersonality
Gwendy's Magic Feather | Richard Chizmar
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Who knows what the tone the second book in a series written by only one of the original co-authors, prefaced by a first book I might term horror-fantasy, might be, but what I do know is this is a very cute owl. ☺️

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Robotswithpersonality
Gwendy's Magic Feather | Richard Chizmar
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Vibrant colourway vibe from TBR pile. High contrast makes sense for what I'm willing to bet are intense narratives! 💛💙

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Robotswithpersonality
Gwendy's Button Box | Stephen King
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Pickpick

Bit of a Faustian deal, bit Lord of the Rings (my precious), the idea of gaining power/rewards but at a cost, the idea of an item prized but also a burden that could cause evil. And a handy stand in for concerns about weapons of mass destruction/powerful nations' decision to war. I appreciate the novella treatment, it didn't feel too repetitive in teaching the protagonist and the reader what the box could offer, versus the threat it represents.1/

Robotswithpersonality 2/2 I don\'t know how much the message is undercut versus the protagonist/reader is reassured by Farris\' concluding visit. I\'m glad it\'s a series, because I do want to see Gwendy in action when she\'s not struggling through her formative years haunted by the box. ⚠️ Fatphobia, focus on diet, SA 13mo
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