The Chalk Man
Looking back, it all started on the day of the fair and the terrible accident. When twelve-year-old Eddie first met the Chalk Man.It was the Chalk Man who gave Eddie the idea for the drawings: a way to leave secret messages between his group of friends.And it was fun, to start with, until the...
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Looking back, it all started on the day of the fair and the terrible accident. When twelve-year-old Eddie first met the Chalk Man.It was the Chalk Man who gave Eddie the idea for the drawings: a way to leave secret messages between his group of friends.And it was fun, to start with, until the figures led them to the body of a young girl.That was thirty years ago and Ed tho
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ISBN:
9780718187439 (0718187431)
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
[I originally received a copy of this book through Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review. It just took me ages to get to it.]Kinda OK in terms of the storyline, but this is one of the books that felt “I’m going to like it” in the beginning, and in fact… Well, no.The 1986 parts were more striki...
Funny story: My loan LITERALLY expired when I only had 13 minutes left. Luckily, I was able to recheck it out immediately and finish it. That's the only downside to Overdrive: Very strict loan periods. Overall, I liked this one quite a bit. Tudor is a good writer and the plot was engaging enough ...
This book felt very familiar. If you grew up reading King and watching many an 80’s movie, you’ll no doubt feel the same way. It has a beautiful sense of place and a slow sense of creeping dread but there wasn’t anything totally new here and by the end I was beginning to just wish it would hurry up ...
This is pretty dazzling debut, especially given all the clunky "just OK" mysteries that litter my house, library history, recommendations and my Read piles. I'll take a mystery no matter what, but it's very nice to get a good one. As I read this, I was reminded repeatedly of less successful (in my...
"The Chalk Man" is a thriller set in a small English town and told in two timelines: the summer of 1986, when the main characters are twelve year's old, and forty years later when someone challenges what really happened in 1986. It is a very atmospheric piece that captures both the feel of being t...
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