NOS4A2 - Joe Hill

Young Victoria McQueen has a gift for finding things: a lost bracelet, a treasured photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. All she has to do is ride her bike through the Shorter Way Bridge and she'll come out the other end wherever she needs to be . . . even if that's hundreds of miles away. Vic doesn't tell anyone about her unusual ability because she knows that no one would understand it. She doesn't understand it herself. And then she discovers she's not the only one with a special gift.

There are others . . . like Charlie Manx, who takes children for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4R2 vanity plate. Charlie drives his precious passengers away from all they've ever known: their families, their homes, even their own humanity. By the time they get where they're going - an astonishing secret place called Christmasland - they've changed, utterly. By the time they get out of the Wraith, they're truly Charlie's children; as unstoppable and insane as Manx himself.

Only one kid ever escaped Charlie Manx: a very lucky girl named Vic McQueen. But the end of that nightmare was just the beginning of another. Vic's first brush with Manx lit the fuse on a life-and-death battle of wills, her magic pitted against his . . . a battle that explodes a quarter century later. Because now Manx has taken Vic's own son. And Vic McQueen is going to get him back. Or die trying.

Excellent read! I only found out recently that Joe Hill is Stephen King's son, aand I can understand why. It must be hard to make a name for yourself in the field that your father shaped to its current state. Up until Dreamcatcher I devoured every Stephen King horror novel, but Dreamcatcher put me off of King's books for two decades. I've only recently started reading his books again. But I digress, Joe Hill definitely has his own style, but his book NOS4A2 (Nosferatu) was reminiscent of those older Stephen King novels. He definitely is the heir apparent of the horror genre!

Read for the Shelf Reflection Reading Challenge.
Prompt 6: A book over 500 pages.
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