Victoria McQueen is the one that got
away. Charles Manx, the convicted serial
killer, never got her into his Rolls Royce Wraith with the license plate
NOS4A2. Both Victoria and Manx have the ability
to travel to a world like and unlike our own.
Victoria uses her bicycle to travel to faraway places to recover lost
objects. Manx uses his car to bring
children to Christmasland – an amusement park where childhood innocence is
preserved forever. But true innocence
isn’t as wonderful as it would seem.
Now, years later, Manx is back and threatening revenge on Victoria. He plans on driving once again to
Christmasland.
Obviously you need to suspend
disbelief to read this one. It’s
definitely horror, but not too terribly graphic. Hill creates a great paranormal idea and his
villain is really interesting. Strange,
and weirdly adhering to his perverse morals, but interesting. I wouldn’t ever want to meet him though!
I read the afterword and everyone
should thank his famous writer mother (Tabitha King) for the great ending. Not to give anything away, but he doesn’t end
the book like his famous writer father (Stephen King) would. You may actually smile at the end of this
one!
The library has this one available
as an eBook – a great way to read those good and long (and therefore heavy)
books on vacation!
