She Has a Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭒
Genre: Horror
US Publication: March 31, 2020
Print: 774 pages
Audio: 23 hours 37 minutes
Confetti Rating: 4.5 stars
REVIEW:
In addition to its long-a$$ title, She Has a Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be has:
Roots in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, but you don’t need to have read it beforehand.
A story that’s very hard to classify (thriller? paranormal?), up until a climax that’s so spine-tingling in 2021 that it has to be called horror.
“Stranger Things” vibes, just without the demogorgons (and Eggos).
774 pages!
A worthy spot on bookshelves next to King and McCammon.
A deserved 4.5+ average rating on Goodreads.
So many well-drawn, memorable characters!
My ardent recommendation for anyone looking for a page-turning saga to get lost in for a few days.
PUBLISHER SYNOPSIS:
A haunting tale of suspense, rendered with the masterful skill only Barker could muster.
After the loss of his parents, young Jack Thatch first met Stella as a child - this cryptic little girl of eight with dark hair and darker eyes, sitting alone on a bench in the cemetery clutching her favorite book. Gone moments later, the brief encounter would spark an obsession. She'd creep into his thoughts, his every waking moment, until he finally finds her again exactly one year later, sitting upon the same bench, only to disappear again soon after.
The body of a man found in an alley, every inch of his flesh horribly burned, yet his clothing completely untouched. For Detective Faustino Brier, this wasn't the first, and he knew it wouldn't be the last. It was no different from the others. He'd find another just like it one year from today. August 9, to be exact.
Isolated and locked away from the world in a shadowy lab, a little boy known only as Subject "D" waits, grows, learns. He's permitted to speak to no one. He has never known the touch of another. Harboring a power so horrific, those in control will never allow him beyond their walls. All of them linked in ways unimaginable.