Joyland | Stephen King
Title: Joyland Author: Stephen King Stephen King's Joyland takes us to a sun-soaked, slightly tacky North Carolina amusement park in the 1970s, where college student Devin Jones is spending the summer trying to get over his first heartbreak. Wendy Keegan has made her choice, and Devin is left to pick up the pieces. Fortunately, working at Joyland gives him plenty to occupy his time. Between the eccentric people who populate the park, his growing friendship with Annie and her remarkable son Mike, and the lingering mystery of a young woman murdered in the House of Horrors, Devin soon finds himself caught up in considerably more than a summer job. For anyone working their way through King's enormous catalog, Joyland is a welcome break from the six-hundred-page doorstops he is known for. It's part coming-of-age story, part murder mystery, with just enough of the supernatural thrown in to keep things interesting. The mystery itself isn't particularly difficult to solve. I su...