Heart-Shaped Box

1.5, and that's generous. I didn't enjoy this book at all. This is the 3rd I've read from Hill after The Fireman and NOS4A2 which I enjoyed more than this one. Luckily this book was half the size of the others or I wouldn't have finished it. The beginning was OK, the middle sucked, the climax sucked, the ending sucked. Even the acknowledgments were cheesy. The dialogue was hit and miss, the rock and roll references sounded poseur-ish, the story went off on tangents and little to none of the ghost stuff ever made sense. All I can say is that I'm glad I didn't read this first as it would have turned me off of Hill and also it's clear he's on an upward trajectory. So, that's good at least.