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Welcome back in Castle Rock… again!
Gwendy Peterson is back for another adventure! After the events in the first book 'Gwendy's Button Box', she became a celebrated author with a few thrillers written and published. After her dear friend Johnathon died from Aids, she wrote his story down and became a congresswoman, to fight for the rights of patients with HIV and their right to medication. She has a boyfriend, Ryan, who is a photographer in war situations who is currently in Timor.
And then one day she finds a strange, very recognisable, object on her desk: a Morgan silver Dollar from 1891! And soon after a familiar button box is found in her room. All her memories from her childhood come flooding back to her and with it the fear for the obsession for the box, its content and its fearsome eight buttons, especially the black button!
The holiday season is upon her and she plans on travelling back to Castle Rock, Maine, her hometown. In Castle Rock another evil is at work, kidnapping young girls whom are never found again. While Gwendy is in Castle Rock she contacts Sheriff Ridgewick, who has seen his share of evil in this town, a town that seems to lure the evils towards it: a rabid dog, a serial killer, a writer who got stalked by his alter ego and a shop keeper who seemed to have something for everyone in town... We've all seen those horrors, haven't we?
And now Gwendy and Norris are on the hunt for a kidnapper and probable killer of these young girls. While Gwendy tries to help the town in any way she has her personal issues to deal with as well. Her mother, who combatted cancer ones before has a relapse and will probably not heal from it this time, her boyfriend hasn't been heard from in a while and she fears the worst and the button box is beckoning her to push its buttons and pull its levers... Will she be able to resist?
It’s amazing to see Richard Chizmar circomvent around the events that Castle Rock has had to endure during the past decades. In Gwendy’s Button Box nothing yet had happened and now, after fifteen or some years and Gwendy’s return to the town, everything has already occurred. It’s only thanks to its inhabitants (the ones that stayed after the events of 1991, when a certain shop keeper sent the town in a frenzy), especially Sheriff Norris Ridgewick, that Gwendy and us readers are kept in the loop. (Of course, whoever read King’s novels knows best!)
This part in the trilogy has some pretty amazing and stunning artwork, again by the talented Keith Minnion.
The second book in the trilogy is often said to be the weakest part. I think it had a strong story only fell flat at certain points in the story and the Castle Rock storyline with the abducted girls was handled way too fast. But apart from that it is an easy and quick read and it makes me want to finish the trilogy as soon as possible. I feel there's something much worse to come in the following installment! Let's discover!
And then one day she finds a strange, very recognisable, object on her desk: a Morgan silver Dollar from 1891! And soon after a familiar button box is found in her room. All her memories from her childhood come flooding back to her and with it the fear for the obsession for the box, its content and its fearsome eight buttons, especially the black button!
The holiday season is upon her and she plans on travelling back to Castle Rock, Maine, her hometown. In Castle Rock another evil is at work, kidnapping young girls whom are never found again. While Gwendy is in Castle Rock she contacts Sheriff Ridgewick, who has seen his share of evil in this town, a town that seems to lure the evils towards it: a rabid dog, a serial killer, a writer who got stalked by his alter ego and a shop keeper who seemed to have something for everyone in town... We've all seen those horrors, haven't we?
And now Gwendy and Norris are on the hunt for a kidnapper and probable killer of these young girls. While Gwendy tries to help the town in any way she has her personal issues to deal with as well. Her mother, who combatted cancer ones before has a relapse and will probably not heal from it this time, her boyfriend hasn't been heard from in a while and she fears the worst and the button box is beckoning her to push its buttons and pull its levers... Will she be able to resist?
It’s amazing to see Richard Chizmar circomvent around the events that Castle Rock has had to endure during the past decades. In Gwendy’s Button Box nothing yet had happened and now, after fifteen or some years and Gwendy’s return to the town, everything has already occurred. It’s only thanks to its inhabitants (the ones that stayed after the events of 1991, when a certain shop keeper sent the town in a frenzy), especially Sheriff Norris Ridgewick, that Gwendy and us readers are kept in the loop. (Of course, whoever read King’s novels knows best!)
This part in the trilogy has some pretty amazing and stunning artwork, again by the talented Keith Minnion.
The second book in the trilogy is often said to be the weakest part. I think it had a strong story only fell flat at certain points in the story and the Castle Rock storyline with the abducted girls was handled way too fast. But apart from that it is an easy and quick read and it makes me want to finish the trilogy as soon as possible. I feel there's something much worse to come in the following installment! Let's discover!
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