The Fiction Freak Reviews

Book Review: Holy Fools Author: Joanne Harris   “From a certain height, everyone looks the same - men, women, villains, kings - as if rank and fortune were simply an accident of perspective.”   I remember I was kind of skeptical to pick up my first Joanne Harris' book Chocolat. By the time I turned over the last page of that book, I was an adherent Joanne Harris fan. And since then I have had collected all her books. This one, "Holy Fools", came as a surprise (which I shall eventually explain) and proved it that Joanne Harris is one of the best storyteller ever. 'Holy Fools' has every bit of expertise storytelling with every page that one can't miss oneself to amuse over the simplicity yet powerful narrative.   “Love not often, but forever.”   The premise of this book is set in 17th century France, there is the murder of Henri IV which resulted into massive upheaval in the country, a time where witch trails, regicide and religious frenzy was ...

Book Review: The Shining Author: Stephen King "Redrum"   Alright this is the second time I am reading the absolute classic from Stephen King,  The Shining . It was many years back when I first watched the movie and was so captivated by the story which was when I got myself introduced to Stephen King and the first book of his that I picked up was The Shining. I was instantly in love with his style and the way he brings spine-chilling horror to every single page of his books in the most simple yet brilliant way. Years later, now, while I was watching an episode of Friends, when I saw Joey 'Matt leBlanc' stating that how The Shining was his favorite book and how it terrifies him that he has to put the book in his freezer, I made up my mind to read it once again.   "They were a party of settlers in covered-wagon times. They got snowbound one winter in the mountains. They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive."   The Shining revolves a...

Book Review: Into the Water Author: Paula Hawkins Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath. I should state that I haven't read the phenomenal book (so as it is claimed) "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins which is her debut novel. Rather absentmindedly I grabbed her second book "Into the Water" and I must say once again I was skeptical about it in the beginning but gradually through and over the latter part of the book, I was glad that I had pickup up this one.  The horrors conjured up by the mind are always so much worse than what is. Nel Abbot is dead. She went over the cliff into the drowning pool leaving a daughter, Lena, back in the mortal world.Following the unexplained death of her sister, Nel Abbot, Jules Abbott returns to Beckford, a town in Northumberland, to take care of her niece, Lena. Now Jules has been dragged back to the one place she never ever dreamt of returning, the last thing on her mind was to face back the horrors of her...