Book: Black House

 Book: Black House

Author: Stephen King and Peter Straub

Pages: 672

This is my 239th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

20 years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories" Twinner" from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world.  Now Jack is retired LA homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin.  He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories, and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awake those memories.  When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades ago by a madman named Albert fish, the killer is dubbed "the Fishman" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help the inexperienced force find him.  But are these new kilings merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town?  What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams of robin's eggs and red feathers?  It's almost as if someone is trying to tell him something.  As this cryptic message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he may find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted tract of forest, there to encoutner the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.

This books was fine.  It is the second book (and last) in the Talisman duology.  I listened to it and it passed the time, but I did forget that it was the second book in the Talisman which I really didn't like.  I got through it, but it was a bit of a trudge.  I do like the narrator he chose for this series - that helped.  The Black House is actually a very small part of this book - it was very confusing.  It is a bit rambly and I had a hard time caring about the characters.  I have found that books that have more than one author don't work for me.  

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