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[AudioBook Review]: A Good Marriage by Stephen King

Title: A Good Marriage
Author: Stephen King
Narrator: Jessica Hecht
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Release Date: September 30, 2014

I received this book from Simon & Schuster Audio, in exchange for an honest review.

Summary:  What happens when, on a perfectly ordinary evening, all the things you believed in and took for granted are turned upside-down?

When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband.  It's a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends a good marriage.

Thoughts: Bill & Darcy Anderson has had a very good marriage for 20 years. Until the day Bill leaves on a trip, and Darcy find something disturbing and so unbelievable. Her world is rocked to the core.

This is the first short story I have read of Stephen King's.  I did enjoy the story, but I had a really hard time listening to the narrator.  I'm use to reading stories that feature strong women, but sadly Darcy comes off weak and naive. But on the other hand, I did really feel bad for her. It would be shocking for anyone to find out a dark secret when you think you know a person.  A Good Marriage  is a suspenseful read. Edge of your seat, intense. 

Television & movie actress, Jessica Hecht narrates A Good Marriage.

A Good Marriage can also be found in Stephen King's Anthology Full Dark, No Stars. It's also soon to be a major motion picture staring Joan Allen & Anthony Lapaglia.You can check out the trailer here.

Score: 3 Stars

Author Website: http://stephenking.com/

Upcoming Releases:
Big Driver - September 30, 2014
Revival- November 11, 2014
Finders Keepers (Mr. Mercedes #2)- 2015

[Review]: The Heavens Rise by Christopher Rice

Title: The Heavens Rise
Author: Christopher Rice
Genre: Horror
Release Date: October 15, 2013

I received this book from Simon & Schuster, in exchange for an honest review.

Summary: It’s been a decade since the Delongpre family vanished near Bayou Rabineaux, and still no one can explain the events of that dark and sweltering night. No one except Niquette Delongpre, the survivor who ran away from the mangled stretch of guardrail on Highway 22 where the impossible occurred…and kept on running. Who left behind her best friends, Ben and Anthem, to save them from her new found capacity for destruction…and who alone knows the source of her very bizarre—and very deadly—abilities: an isolated strip of swampland called Elysium.

An accomplished surgeon, Niquette’s father dreamed of transforming the dense acreage surrounded by murky waters into a palatial compound befitting the name his beloved wife gave to it, Elysium: “the final resting place for the heroic and virtuous.” Then, ten years ago, construction workers dug into a long-hidden well, one that snaked down into the deep, black waters of the Louisiana swamp and stirred something that had been there for centuries—a microscopic parasite that perverts the mind and corrupts the body.

Niquette is living proof that things done can’t be undone. Nothing will put her family back together again. And nothing can save her. But as Niquette, Ben, and Anthem uncover the truth of a devastating parasite that has the potential to alter the future of humankind, Niquette grasps the most chilling truths of all: someone else has been infected too. And unlike her, this man is not content to live in the shadows. He is intent to use his new found powers for one reason only: revenge.

Thoughts: This was my first time reading Christopher Rice and it was pretty amazing. I was hooked from page one and had a hard time putting it down from there. I was transfixed with both New Orleans and the characters. I loved that it jumps between characters, plus including parts of Niquette's journal.  The Heavens Rise is dark and so eerily creepy. At times it will have you on the edge of your seat.  This one will definitely make on to my top books of 2013.  If you are a fan of Anne Rice or Stephen King you won't want to miss out on Christopher Rice's latest novel.

Score: 4 Stars

Author Website: http://www.christopherricebooks.com/

Book Tour Dates

Events marked with a star denote a joint event with Anne Rice.

*MINNEAPOLIS, MN  - 10/14
*NEW YORK, NY - 10/16
*SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY - 10/17
PHILADELPHIA, PA - 10/19
*LEXINGTON, KY - 10/21
FORT WALTON BEACH, FL - 10/22
DECATUR, GA - 10/23
*NEW ORLEANS, LA - 10/25
COVINGTON, LA - 10/26
*NEW ORLEANS, LA - 10/27
*DALLAS, TX  - 10/29
*LOS ANGELES, CA - 11/2
*SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 11/5
TORONTO, CANADA - 11/13
*TEMPE, AZ - 11/14

[AudioBook Review] - Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

Title: Doctor Sleep
Author: Stephen King
Narrator: Will Patton
Series: The Shining
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Release Date: September 24, 2013

I received this book from Simon & Schuster Audio in exchange for an honest review.

Summary:  On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of The Shining and satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.

Thoughts: Sadly, I have never read The Shining. But I'm familiar with the story from having seen both movie versions and was eager to see what happened to little Danny Torrence.

I loved this one! Danny's story and struggle with alcoholism was heartbreaking and amazing. I loved the character Abra. Gifted just like Danny. She was so fun to read about. Sweet but so very fierce.  The True Knots, were interesting part of the story, but really creepy. I'll never look at folks in RV's the same way again.  Doctor Sleep was an excellent read. Dark, creepy and exciting. Really everything you expect and hope for from Stephen King. 

Doctor Sleep is narrated by actor, Will Patton. He did a smashing job, so much so I forgot it was him talking. I loved all the character voices.

Score: 5 Stars

Author Website: http://www.stephenking.com