Book #108 |
Book: The Hush | Author: John Hart | |
| Source: Friend loan Format: Print |
Pages: 432 | Duration: 11/09/25 – 11/14/25 (6 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★☆ | Genres: fiction, mystery, thriller, suspense, horror, fantasy, supernatural | ||
| 📕10-word summary: An enigmatic man on dangerously haunted land confronts its demons. 🖌6-word review: Sometimes confusing. Stephen King-ish at times. |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “The receptionist was as polished as the marble floor.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: scree, hardscrabble, keening, understory, pocosin, manumission | |||
| Description:* It’s been 10 years since the events that changed Johnny Merrimon’s life and rocked his hometown to the core. Since then, Johnny has fought to maintain his privacy, but books have been written of his exploits; the fascination remains. Living alone on 6,000 acres of once-sacred land, Johnny’s only connection to normal life is his old friend, Jack. They’re not boys anymore, but the bonds remain. What they shared. What they lost. But Jack sees danger in the wild places Johnny calls home; he senses darkness and hunger, an intractable intent. Johnny will discuss none of it, but there are the things he knows, the things he can do. A lesser friend might accept such abilities as a gift, but Jack has felt what moves in the swamp: the cold of it, the unspeakable fear.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: I’d never heard of this author, so when I saw this book at a friend’s house, I borrowed it. I’m not a big fan of the fantasy, supernatural, or horror genres, but I gave this a go anyway. Overall it was a compelling story, but it had a lot of characters (sometimes called by their first name, sometimes by their last, which confused me sometimes — with some “Now who is this character again?” noise in my head. And with so many characters, dialogue tags were essential but missing enough times that I thought, “Whose line is whose in this dialogue exchange right now?” a little too often. I definitely got some “Stephen King vibes” more than once while reading this — think It. This is the 2nd in a 2-book series, but it stood on its own, and I’m not interested in reading the first book in the series. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
