This week's #HorrorForLibraries giveaway features a book by NYT Best selling authors Stephen King and Richard Chizmar, the final book in a trilogy which also closes a loop in another series. Details below, but first, how to enter:
- You need to be affiliated with an American public library. My rationale behind that is that I will be encouraging you to read these books and share them with patrons. While many of them are advanced reader copies that you cannot add to your collections, if you get the chance to read them, my hope is that you will consider ordering a copy for your library and give away the ARC away as a prize or pass it on to a fellow staff member.
- If you are interested in being included in any giveaway at any time, you must email me at zombiegrl75 [at] gmail [dot] com with the subject line "#HorrorForLibraries." In the body of the email all you have to say is that you want to be entered and the name of your library.
- Each entry will be considered for EVERY giveaway. Meaning you enter once, and you are entered until you win. I will randomly draw a winner on Fridays sometime after 5pm central. But only entries received by 5pm each week will be considered for that week. I use Random.org and have a member of my family witness the "draw"based off your number in the Google Sheet.
- If you win, you are ineligible to win again for 4 weeks; you will have to re-enter after that time to be considered [I have a list of who has won, when, and what title]. However, if you do not win, you carry over into the next week. There is NO NEED to reenter.
Click here to see giveaway #70. Our winner was Ashley from Washington District [IL] Library. Now on to today's giveaway.
This series is an excellent, sure bet option for fans of ominous Dark Fantasy or Atmospheric Horror. Watching Gwendy grow over the course of the 3 books, and seeing how the path to the end was clearly laid out in the first book, has been fascinating. The evil is real, the threat is not overstated, but Gwendy herself has needed to become a fully realized version of herself in order to meet the challenge. We needed the three books to get her there.
Real quick though, to catch everyone up, here is my review of Gwendy's Button Box and my review of Gwendy's Magic Feather. And here is the publisher summary for Gwendy's Final Task:
When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven colored buttons promised death and destruction.
Years later, the button box entered Gwendy’s life again. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation that box represented.
Now, evil forces seek to possess the button box and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them. At all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities?
In Gwendy’s Final Task, “horror giants” (Publishers Weekly)Stephen King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to the MF-1 space station, where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And, maybe, all worlds.
Looking back at my older reviews and the upcoming title I will say the tone also has an increase that is realistic. So while the first book was sinister but somehow still sweet, the next book was eerie, and now this one is fairly terrifying.
Chizmar and King have worked very hard to fit these books in King's mythos [and here in particular to The Dark Tower Series in a nice surprise], so that uber fans will be overjoyed. However, the touch is light and this trilogy is completely enjoyable on its own. You do not need to be in the know to enjoy it for what it is-- a well rendered and satisfying series that will bring readers joy for years to come. And that last point is important-- this will have fans for years to come.
Enter now for your own ARC and get ready for Gwendy.
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