Joyland

Stars 4/5

Joyland by Stephen King

I have to say that this book was not as creepy as I hoped it would be but I did enjoy it. I just love books about carnivals. This book follows Devin, a college aged guy that got a job at Joyland for the summer. The amusement park was the scene of a throat slashing murder and it is said that the Horror House is haunted. Devin decides to take a year off college and continue working at the park and it is then he meets a young boy that is dying of an incurable disease and his mother, which he has a crush on. This is definitely a coming of age story done the hard way. I don't want to go into the story more as to not spoil it but I do recommend it.