![]() ![]() ![]() King wants us to know upfront that Billy may be a killer, but he only kills people who deserve it. Billy is hired to kill a “bad man”, the only kind of job he ever takes. The man knows his way around some prose.īILLY SUMMERS is the kind of novel that, as a writer myself, baffles me with just how easy he makes it seems. He’s been publishing novels for FORTY-SEVEN years, and publishing fiction in general for longer than that. Let’s read it and see what happens.īut see, what I was forgetting was, this is Stephen frickin’ King, and even when his books are terrible, his writing is NOT. Hitman on ONE LAST JOB before he retires, THE BIG SCORE to send him off into his golden years, but SOMETHING GOES WRONG. ![]() WOW, that’s a cover only a mother could love.īILLY SUMMERS, at first glance-well, second glance, once I got past that cover!-is a story I felt I was going to yawn all the way through. In this particular case, a terrible cover did not make for a terrible book.īut make no mistake, that’s one UGLY cover. I did that with his 2021 book BILLY SUMMERS, and I was totally 100% wrong. I still will look at the cover first and form an opinion of the book as a whole. Even when it’s a Stephen King book and I KNOW I’m going to buy it and read it and, most likely, enjoy it. I know I’m not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but I have to admit I do. Rating: Sometimes Horror Writers Write Crime Novels and Sometimes They’re Really Good ![]()
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