Just read an amazing book by Joe Hill .  Definitely not for middle graders, but “NOS4A2” is imaginative, suspenseful, scary and cool!

Though I have been a fan from the first page of his “Heart-Shaped Box”, I only recently realized that Mr. Hill is Stephen King’s son.

Check out Janet Maslin’s review below:

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Books of The Times:

Villainous Christmas and Biker Heroines
‘NOS4A2,’ a Novel by Joe Hill

Illustrated. 692 pages. William Morrow. $28.99.
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By JANET MASLIN Published: April 28, 2013

Joe Hill takes a cheery little Oedipal swipe at his father in the acknowledgment pages of his throat-grabbing new novel, “NOS4A2.” He describes the two of them riding back roads on motorcycles, Mr. Hill on his Triumph. His father, “a Harley snob,” admires the Triumph but says its engine reminds him of a sewing machine.

“I guess I have been cruising his back roads my whole life,” Mr. Hill writes. “I don’t regret it.” This is a nice way of saying that his father, Stephen King, writes horror novels but that he, Joseph Hillstrom King, has the brass to write them too.

Here is the link to read the full review on The New York Times web site: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/books/nos4a2-a-novel-by-joe-hill.html?smid=pl-share