The Burn Palace: A Novel
Stephen Dobyns,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA)
Stephen Dobyns,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA)
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142180440 (0142180440)
ASIN: 142180440
Publish date: January 28th 2014
Publisher: Plume
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Weird things happening in a small town, but everything comes together in the end in a believable conclusion (of sorts). That alone makes it worth the read. Also, this book has hints of Stephen King... actually, it's more like a bouillon cube of Stephen King. It has Stephen King flavorings, but ste...
I finished this book in two days, literally staying up until ungodly hours of the night to do so. Upon finishing, I can say it was a messy, creepy, action-filled suspense-y thriller set in a small New England town. However, while reading this book, I couldn't stop grousing!The novel opens dramatical...
I was excited to start this one – Eliza at Penguin rarely guides me wrong. After the first few chapters, though, I was wondering what I’d gotten myself into. Things were going so s.l.o.w.l.y. Sure, there’s the snake-in-the-hospital-crib thing and the requisite hullabaloo that follows. And then I was...
Full review up at http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/the-burn-palace/...Stephen Dobyns has an impressive back catalog of well-regarded poetry collections, a long-running detective series set in Saratoga Springs, and a handful of genre-jumping novels that invariably draw rounds of applause fro...