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In search of the Next Book

by Adam Pelletier and Addison Thornton

Addison and Adam Book Blog Week 4

Joyland by Stephen King is a mystery crime novel about a man named Devin Jones who takes a summer job at a funpark named Joyland, as an attempt to recover from a heartbreak. Based in North Carolina, a fortune teller tells him about a few people he’ll meet, which have to deal with a series of unsolved murders around the park.

Devin is told to work at the ferris wheel of the park, while simultaneously taking a personal attempt at solving the murder cases.

The book is overall good but it can be hard to follow at some points. It’s another one of the three books in King’s hard case crime series, “The Colorado Kid.” 

Other books I would recommend:

  • The Institute
  • The Colorado Kid
  • The Langoliers
  • Thinner

Circe is a mythological fiction novel written by Madeline Miller. Unlike her popular novel, The Song of Achilles, this novel focuses on the life of a goddess and witch who was exiled to an island for an indefinite amount of time. This goddess goes by the name of Circe. As the ruler and only resident of the island Aeaea, the story goes through her experiences with others and how she grows her power as an immortal witch. 

The story begins with her life before her banishment and her relationships with her parents, Helios and Perse, and her siblings. Throughout her childhood she was treated terribly by her siblings and her mother claiming there was nothing special about her. One day something changes and she meets a man. From there, nothing will ever be the same.  

Circe is a wonderful novel about one of the most powerful women in Greek mythology and how she came to be remembered for centuries. Full of feminism and hardship, this novel is a beautiful retelling of a story not talked about enough. 

Other books similar to this:

  • Atalanta by Jennifer Saint 
  • Medusa’s Sisters by Lauren J. A. Bear
  • Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood
  • The Shadow of Perseus by Claire Heywood
  • A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

In Search of the Next Best Book

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

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In Search of the Next Book

By: Adam Pelletier and Addison Thornton

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This week they review The Langoliers by Stephen King and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.

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