![]() I have to admit that much of this had me sighing and flicking forward to see when each chapter would end. However, this quickly becomes repetitive, with every single person he meets wanting to either hurt or have sex with someone they know.Īfter learning that Ig’s girlfriend was murdered a year ago, we’re then treated to long sequences of flashbacks from the early days of their relationship. Worse still, when he makes physical contact with a person, he can see every dark secret and every nasty thing they’ve ever done. He then proceeds with the story logically and rapidly, with Ig taking a visit to the walk-in centre and accidentally discovering the side-effects of his new pointy accessories: that people he talks to now confess their darkest desires to him without prompting. ![]() Hill throws us right in at the deep end by having the protagonist, Ig, discover his new predicament – that a nice sharp pair of horns have begun growing out of his forehead – on the very first page. It’s unfortunate: Horns actually starts off very promisingly. The main impression I had of the majority of the book was “meh.” ![]() I own both Horns and Heart-Shaped Box, but decided to go with Horns as it was the subject of the group read on a forum I participate in. ![]() ![]() Aside from a few teenage forays into King and Herbert, I’m something of a stranger to the genre, but Joe Hill’s work has appealed to me for a while now. Back in October, I fancied dipping into a horror novel. ![]()
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