| [Devin has asked Erin to find anything she can about the amusement park murder, and she returns on a visit with some pictures and articles she had collected | In an attempt to forgot about the girl, he quickly becomes engrossed in an unsolved murder that happened in Joyland a number of years ago |
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| The little girl was not killed BY a woman talking on the phone | " And add to it his knack for truly fantastic, amazing characterization, creating in the pages of his stories people that are alive, real, recognizable for better or for worse ; characters that inhabit the settings that with a few casual phrases turn hauntingly real, come alive from the paperback pages - and here, dear reader, we have Joyland |
If I ever were to meet Stephen King, I imagine that the conversation would go something like this: A: Mr.
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| He obviously did zero research | The cover Art implies pulp fiction, and although the novel is not exactly that, there are no surprises |
While never really taking center stage through most of th JoyLand is a slow burn of a book and that was alright by me.
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