Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Gwendy's Final Task

Gwendy's Final Task
By Stephen King & Richard Chizmar
Cemetery Dance Publications, 2022. 412 pages. Fiction

When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven colored buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box has entered Gwendy's life again. Now, evil forces seek to possess the button box and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from all of them. At all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities? 

This is the third and final book in King's Gwendy series and it did not disappoint. You don't need to have read the first two in order to fall in love with Gwendy's unwavering determination, but she's such a likeable character that I recommend not missing them! Gwendy's final task turns out to be a much bigger task than she anticipated, and she's not ready to face it at all, but she'll do it anyway. Gwendy is the most incredibly unassuming hero the world has ever seen.

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Middle-aged rock star Judas Coyne collects morbid curios for fun, so doesn't think twice about buying a suit advertised at an online auction site as haunted by its dead owner's ghost. Only after it arrives does Judas discover that the suit belonged to Craddock McDermott, the stepfather of one of Coyne's discarded groupies, and that the old man's ghost is a malignant spirit determined to kill Judas in revenge for his stepdaughter's suicide.

Home Before Dark
By Riley Sager
Dutton, 2020. 384 pages. Fiction

Twenty-five years after her father published the wildly popular nonfiction book based on her family's rushed exit from the haunted Victorian estate, Maggie inherits the house and begins renovations only to make a number of disturbing discoveries. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound-and dangerous-secrets hidden within its walls? 

LKA



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