A Hard Crime Novel

Stephen King: Joyland 
Published by Titan Books
A Hard Case Crime Novel

Being fans of Stephen King's work for as long as we can remember, ie back in 
Secondary/High School when other students were reading Goosebumps stories and 
learning Shakespeare in English class, we found that this particular story took 
a different style of genre from King's usual penned literacy.
Joyland, for what can only described as the duration of the entire novel, brings 
us a Fun role of reading and story telling (we sell fun here, Kiddo). Being Hard 
Crime Novel virgins, we were unsure of previous stories by other authors and 
therefore expected King's usual Horror feel to the tale, and while this never 
came, we were NOT disappointed by the outcome. Following the life of Devin, a 21 
year old with a desire for the taste of carnival life, we start off with him and 
many other Greenies being shown the ins and outs of how a carny works. Hired to 
sell fun to Rubes, and wear the fur, Dev stumbles upon a mystery in the form of 
a supposedly haunted funhouse of horror (a ghost train) and soon discovers that 
what has happened in someone else's past, can and will come back to bite him in 
the ass. Along with psychic predictions, love life and gifted children, Joyland 
is an absolute joy to read and, despite its less than scary approach,  was 
extremely difficult to lay down.
We at BlogDangerous give this novel
7/10 Blogger Points and a note to say "well worth reading"!