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4 stars
After the slight disappointment of 'The Fireman', his more recent work, I went back up his timestream and read NOS4R2. And enjoyed it very much. It is a gripping thriller with flawed and believable characters who step up and do the right thing, a nastily evil villain - this is, as you might imagine from the title, a vampire novel of sorts but without capes and overacting or any of the more recent vampire tropes for that matter. Let us not forget that vampires are nasty. They suck people's essence out from the inside. That kind of nasty. They Do Not Sparkle.) There is a bridge that goes to strange places, a lesbian librarian who divines via Scrabble, and a place where it's always Christmas (as CS Lewis put it years ago, "Not daydreams. Dreams."). Injuries are not just shrugged off. Wounds can last for years, especially the ones inside, …
After the slight disappointment of 'The Fireman', his more recent work, I went back up his timestream and read NOS4R2. And enjoyed it very much. It is a gripping thriller with flawed and believable characters who step up and do the right thing, a nastily evil villain - this is, as you might imagine from the title, a vampire novel of sorts but without capes and overacting or any of the more recent vampire tropes for that matter. Let us not forget that vampires are nasty. They suck people's essence out from the inside. That kind of nasty. They Do Not Sparkle.) There is a bridge that goes to strange places, a lesbian librarian who divines via Scrabble, and a place where it's always Christmas (as CS Lewis put it years ago, "Not daydreams. Dreams."). Injuries are not just shrugged off. Wounds can last for years, especially the ones inside, and there are supportive points made about that currently maligned state, fatherhood. And vintage cars and bikes, and the kind of magical hello summer goodbye that Stephen King has in some of his novels.
yes, I know. Not relevant to the review. Book is read on its own terms.
