by Adam Pelletier and Addison Thornton
Stephen King’s “Billy Summers” is a personal favorite of mine. This book is full of suspenseful, thrilling, and graphic scenes, and is very entertaining to read. It goes through many different emotions and King somehow still fits plenty of humor throughout the entire book as well.
This book describes the life of a man named Billy Summers, who works as a hired assassin/killer, and is on his last job before he plans to retire. The job seemed awfully shady to him, but he decided to accept it anyways. The job, of course, does not go exactly as planned, leading to Billy’s mission getting more and more complicated.
“Billy Summers” is one of King’s more recent novels, being released in 2021, and is personally one of his best novels that I have read. It was very easy for me to get into this book, as it’s more appealing to me than others. I would heavily recommend this book to anyone who is interested in crime, thrillers, suspense, or all of them combined.
Other books I would recommend by Stephen King:
- The Institute
- Joyland
- Later
- The Colorado Kid
- The Langoliers
- Thinner
Daughter of Sparta is an incredible novel by Claire Heywood. The novel is full of turmoil, war, love, and sorrow. The story switches point of views from the two daughters of Tyndareus, Helen and Clytemnestra. The famous tale of the Trojan War reimagined through the eyes of the two most important women of the war.
The story begins with the sisters as kids and goes through their lives as princesses in ancient Greece. Eventually they are married off to King Agamemnon, ruler of Mycenae, and King Menelaus, ruler of Sparta. The marriages soon go sour, which leads Helen to make a world changing decision.
Daughters of Sparta is a beautiful retelling of this timeless tale and takes a more feminist side of the story. The novel will definitely cause tears and a range of emotion, so fair warning to those who don’t want to read an emotional novel. I would highly recommend this novel to fans of mythological fiction and war.
Other books about or involving the Trojan War:
- A Thousand Ships- Natalie Haynes
- Clytemnestra- Costanza Casati
- The Song of Achilles- Madeline Miller
- The Silence of the Girls- Pat Barker
- Elektra- Jennifer Saint
For more book reviews, visit their website link below
Baron Media Network 