“Pick a sin we can both live with.”

Horns by Joe Hill

First, I’d like to thank God for bringing Joe Hill and his father (Stephen King) into this world. I know I don’t have a uterus, but if you could please let me have one of their babies, I’d be eternally grateful. Amen.

“There’s only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn’t get to be the good guy.”

This book was everything I never knew I wanted in a book. Finishing it made me sad that the story was over. Even though we never actually meet Merrin, Joe Hill succeeds in giving us a full picture of Merrin’s life and death. He made us feel like we’d really known her. You fall in love with her just like Ig did. Even though you know just from the synopsis and beginning of the book that she is dead, Hill makes you feel shock and hurt when she dies. Her death hits you like a brick. He did the same to make you fall in love with Ig. I really felt for Ig. I wanted him to be redeemed and live an amazing life. I can’t imagine what it’s like to hear the people you love and thought loved you reveal their deepest darkest secrets and true feelings for you. Reading this book made me feel enthralled and uncomfortable at the same time. A reader named Matthew wrote “My guess is that 9 out of 10 readers will have no idea exactly what happened, but there is a good chance that most of them will have enjoyed it”. Another reader Anzu The Great Destroyer posted 3 pictures of the 3 things they needed to “make the hurt go away”. Those 3 pictures were a bottle of Vodka, puppies, and Mel Brook’s Men In Tights movie. Both readers are extremely accurate. As always from Joe Hill we received a clever premise executed brilliantly. This book shows you just how f***ed up human beings can really be. Thank you, Joe, for always pushing the envelope!

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rear-view mirror on your way to something better.”

 “I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”

Synopsis:

Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples.  At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real.  Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more—he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.  But Merrin’s death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside.

“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”

5 twisted-sick-crazy-dark-strange stars!   Horns

P.S. The movie is pretty awesome, too!