In other words, the sister wanted the ghost, who was her and the Anne’s stepdad, to haunt and kill Jude. But he gets bamboozled into buying the ghost (through the suit the man who recently died once wore) from Florida’s (aka Anne’s) sister, Jessica Price, who blames Jude for Anne’s suicide. He’s into collecting the macabre to go along with his brand as a death metal rocker. The story follows Judas “Jude” Coyne, who is an aging rock star and predictably ghastly in the way he treats his underling, Danny, and womanizing, calling his conquests by the state in which they come from, such as Tennessee, Florida and the latest, Georgia, aka, Marybeth. Put it this way, I don’t mind listening to some death metal, but would I want to listen to three hours of death metal? No, thanks. Heart-Shaped Box, the 2007 debut novel from Joe Hill, (yes, Stephen King’s son, Joe Hill) has that killer premise - death metal rock star buys a ghost off of a knockoff eBay horror ensues - but I do think it probably would have been better off as a tight short story rather than a full-length novel. Sometimes books have such an alluring, fresh premise, that such a premise can carry it quite a ways, if the author runs out of steam for the story. My copy of Joe Hill’s 2007 debut novel Heart-Shaped Box.
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