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 :)

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

by Heather Morris

Hi :) Today's review will be about an Holocaust book based on a true story. 

Check out my last review about the short horror stories by Edgar Allan Poe :)

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Today's book will be The Tattooist of Auschwitz by the New Zealander author Heather Morris. 

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The book narrates the true story of Lale Sokolov, born Eisenberg, a Holocaust survivor that spent 3 years in the concentration camp of Auschwitz - Birkenau.

Lale is a Jewish young man from Slovakia, from the little town of Krompachy, taken from his home and put on the train to hell. 

There, he will have the "luck", if we can say so, to be able to have a job to protect himself and the others. Being the Tattooist of the prisoners of Auschwtiz. 

While on work, his eyes fall on a young girl, another Slovakian as he, Gita Furman. 

From this encounter, their endless love story will begin. 

Lale will do everything in his power to keep her alive during these three years trapped there together. 

After that the Russians will "free" the camp, they will be separated from each other and they will start a new journey to find themselves again. 

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I really liked it. At first I wasn't attracted by the plot because it sounded like a romance set during those times. 

But I was really changed my mind about.

I appreciated the fact that at the end it included also his interview with the writer and he told some more facts about his story. 

My version of the book also included the incipit to the next book of her, Cilka's Journey, another survivor encountered by Lale and Gita. 

I can't wait to start also that one and her new book, Three Sisters :)