Gwendy's Magic Feather (2) (Gwendy's Button Box Trilogy)
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In this thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling novella by Stephen King and award-winning author Richard Chizmar, an adult Gwendy is summoned back to Castle Rock after the mysterious reappearance of the button box.
Something evil has swept into the small Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the latest winter storm. Sheriff Norris Ridgewick and his team are desperately searching for two missing girls, but time is running out.
In Washington, DC, thirty-seven-year-old Gwendy Peterson couldn’t be more different from the self-conscious teenaged girl who once spent a summer running up Castle Rock’s Suicide Stairs. That same summer, she had been entrusted—or some might say cursed—with the extraordinary button box by Richard Farris, the mysterious stranger in the black suit. The seductive and powerful box offered Gwendy small gifts in exchange for its care and feeding until Farris eventually returned, promising the young girl she’d never see the box again.
One day, though, the button box suddenly reappears but this time, without Richard Farris to explain why, or what she’s supposed to do with it. Between this and the troubling disappearances back in Castle Rock, Gwendy decides to return home. She just might be able to help rescue the missing girls and stop a dangerous madman before he does something ghastly.
With breathtaking and lyrical prose, Gwendy’s Magic Feather explores whether our lives are controlled by fate or the choices we make and what price we sometimes have to pay. Prepare to return again to Stephen King’s Castle Rock, the sleepy little town built on a bedrock of deep, dark secrets, just as it’s about to awaken from its quiet slumber once more.
In this thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling novella by Stephen King and award-winning author Richard Chizmar, an adult Gwendy is summoned back to Castle Rock after the mysterious reappearance of the button box.
Something evil has swept into the small Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the latest winter storm. Sheriff Norris Ridgewick and his team are desperately searching for two missing girls, but time is running out.
In Washington, DC, thirty-seven-year-old Gwendy Peterson couldn’t be more different from the self-conscious teenaged girl who once spent a summer running up Castle Rock’s Suicide Stairs. That same summer, she had been entrusted—or some might say cursed—with the extraordinary button box by Richard Farris, the mysterious stranger in the black suit. The seductive and powerful box offered Gwendy small gifts in exchange for its care and feeding until Farris eventually returned, promising the young girl she’d never see the box again.
One day, though, the button box suddenly reappears but this time, without Richard Farris to explain why, or what she’s supposed to do with it. Between this and the troubling disappearances back in Castle Rock, Gwendy decides to return home. She just might be able to help rescue the missing girls and stop a dangerous madman before he does something ghastly.
With breathtaking and lyrical prose, Gwendy’s Magic Feather explores whether our lives are controlled by fate or the choices we make and what price we sometimes have to pay. Prepare to return again to Stephen King’s Castle Rock, the sleepy little town built on a bedrock of deep, dark secrets, just as it’s about to awaken from its quiet slumber once more.
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Gwendy's Magic Feather is the second book of The Button Box trilogy and this time, Richard Chizmar was alone in the writer's seat. He did a great job - I actually enjoyed this installment of the series much more than the first one.
I did miss the whimsical feel from the first book and I was hoping we would learn more about this mysterious button box, but it actually was in the backseat as far as the role it played in this story. This story focused more on Gwendy herself and cemented to the readers just who she was at her core - and Gwendy learned about herself in this one right along with us. I'm sure this was crucial to the series ender with the final book, so I'm looking forward to reading the conclusion very soon!
I did miss the whimsical feel from the first book and I was hoping we would learn more about this mysterious button box, but it actually was in the backseat as far as the role it played in this story. This story focused more on Gwendy herself and cemented to the readers just who she was at her core - and Gwendy learned about herself in this one right along with us. I'm sure this was crucial to the series ender with the final book, so I'm looking forward to reading the conclusion very soon!
Wow what a great second addition to the Gwendy series. Gwendy is back again with her button box in the second installment if the series. She has alot to do this time around, she is an accomplished author, has several awards from her books being made into movies, she's a congresswoman now and fighting for rights.
With all of that going on Gwendy's husband Ryan is in another country doing his job and she barely hears from him due to the circumstances over there, then Gwendy's mother gets ill and finally back in Castle Rock some teenage girls have gone missing with their families worried sick.
Gwendy receives her "magic feather" she had as a child from her parents, she used to call it her magic feather and it would make things right again.
Gwendy sees the button box again for the first time in 25 years. Can Gwendy help herself, her husband, her sick mother and the missing girls?
Thus is such a great book, I can't wait for the third installment next year.
With all of that going on Gwendy's husband Ryan is in another country doing his job and she barely hears from him due to the circumstances over there, then Gwendy's mother gets ill and finally back in Castle Rock some teenage girls have gone missing with their families worried sick.
Gwendy receives her "magic feather" she had as a child from her parents, she used to call it her magic feather and it would make things right again.
Gwendy sees the button box again for the first time in 25 years. Can Gwendy help herself, her husband, her sick mother and the missing girls?
Thus is such a great book, I can't wait for the third installment next year.
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