Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
My Rating: 3.5/5
I read this book for the Spookathon readathon and it is my fifth Stephen King novel.
This book was a lot different to the previous King books I've read in that it was more of a mystery novel than horror. Not that this was a bad thing, it just wasn't what I had been expecting.
This book follows Devin as he nostalgically looks back to his youth when he worked at an amusement park called Joyland following his girlfriend breaking up with him.
As this book was predominately a mystery it didn't really feel like a Stephen King book at times. Of course, it had King's hallmarks though like a child with special abilities and the ability to breath so much life and personality into every character (no matter how relevant to the story) with minimal words.
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