Mr Mercedes by Stephen King

  Mr Mercedes

by Stephen King

Hello :) Today I will be reviewing another book from Mr King.  

Check out my last review about the Misérables by Victor Hugo :)

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The review of today is of the book Mr Mercedes by the American author Stephen King. 

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The book is the first one of a trilogy that concentrates around the stories of Bill Hodges, an ex detective now in retirement and Holly Gibney, a woman that suffers from multiple tics. 

Mr Mercedes focuses on the still opened case of the homonymous killer, known as Brady, afterwards in the story, that killed lots of people standing in front of the Auditorium where a job fair would have been taking place later in the morning for unemployed people. 

Hodges is going in retirement right after this case happens and Brady, is somehow obsessed with him that he starts spying on him daily and then risks to send him an anonymous letter telling him he's the one that did it. 

Thanks to the help of Janey Patterson, the sister of Olivia Trelawney, the girl whose Mercedes has been stolen, and later on of Holly Gibney, Janey's cousin, will try to resolve the case, not letting the police know. 

Will everything go according to plan? Will they manage to catch the bad guy? Or is it going to be too hard since Brady will show his true colours of being a complete deviant. 

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I actually liked it a lot but if I need to be honest, I wouldn't pick it as my favourite of his. I preferred way much The Outsider, but we also need to consider that they're two different genres. 

Mr Mercedes is crime while The Outsider is supernatural. 

Anyway, it was a really enjoyable reading even though the guy was a complete psychopath and lots of time I felt like I just wanted to smack the book away haha

At then end I would rate it 4/5 :)

The Outsider by Stephen King

The Outsider

by Stephen King

Hello :) It's been a while since the last review, but sadly I haven't had much time to read lately. 

Today's review will be about a supernatural thriller. 

Check out my last review about the Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris :)

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Today's book will be The Outsider by the American author Stephen King. 

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The novel sees the police investigation of a young boy, Frank Peterson, being brutally murdered and assaulted physically, in the little town of Flint City in Oklahoma. 

This case will not be an easy one for the detective, Ralph Anderson and his colleagues. 

All the leads, proofs and testimonies seems to take to only one possible suspect: Terry Maitland, a respectable man, known by everyone in town because he's an English teacher and the coach of the baseball team of young boys, of which Peterson was also part of. 

This will lead to the public arrest of Maitland in front of all the people present at the stadium where he was coaching his team. This act will of course shock everyone, since no one would expect something like this happening. 

Maitland, though, after talking with his lawyer, seems to have a really strong alibi. He was in fact out of town during the day the boy was murdered. To prove his innocence there are also other testimonies from the people who were with him during this book event in Cap City and a video footage of him asking a question to the author being hosted to this event. 

Then how is it possible that on the body of the boy and on the white van that was found abandoned close to the scene, there are his finger prints all over the place? How can someone be in two places at once? 

Nothing is as it seems in this psychological and supernatural thriller written by the master himself :)

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Once again Mr. King didn't disappoint me. The Outsider was a true masterpiece of this genre. 

The story kept me hanging and I couldn't stop reading because one scene after another was just breathtaking and horrifying at the same time. 

With this book, King manages one more time to give you those horror goosebumps you experience while hearing or watching something disturbing. 

From this book, was also made a tv series of last year from HBO, called of course "The Outsider", go check it out too :)

Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Short Stories

by Edgar Allan Poe

Hello :) Today's review is about the famous horror novelist par excellence.

Check out my last review about The Picture of Dorian Gray :)

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The book I'm reviewing today is about a group of short stories by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. 

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The stories were pretty easy to read and it was going fluently because it's not so full of harsh words. Just sometimes there are some foreigner words, but thankfully I'm polyglot :)

It's a collection of ten short stories, including: 

The Fall of The House of Usher; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Masque of the Red Death; The Black Cat; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Premature Burial; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdermar; The Cask of Amontillado and Hop-Frog. 

The first one hasn't really been the most scariest of them all in my opinion, but it's still pretty enjoyable to read. They probably put it as the first to prepare you for the gruesome ones that will follow :)

The second is definitely one of the most disturbing ones, especially when he's describing the two cadavers of the ladies in Rue Morgue. This short story presents some French words, since it's set in Paris, so be ready with a dictionary if you haven't study French ;)

The third was a bit creepy considering that he's trapped in a cell with rats trying to devouring him, but otherwise it was a pretty interesting one too. 

The fourth started a bit slow and I was really scared I would have been disappointed by it but the finale was just amazing, if we can say that about a horror. 

The fifth, the Black Cat, is, by far, the one I enjoyed the most, I liked how the cruelty of the human against the little creature then backfired him. 

The sixth was quite creepy as well, especially because the old man in it had a scary eye that tormented also the protagonist. 

The seventh, well, I think I speak for all of us when I say that that's probably one of the main nightmares of everyone, being buried alive. Who isn't scared of that? 

The last three were full of death and violence as well, especially the last one, it had a finale that I would have never expected. 

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So to conclude this, I loved it. 

I didn't have many expectations about it, because it was the first time I've read any of his stories, except his poem The Raven. 

I need to say that one story after the other I was captured into this poetic style of writing and right now I can't even choose my favourite one anymore, I adored them all :)