“A different sort of coming-of-age story about a mysterious stranger and his odd little gift…. Cowritten with Richard Chizmar, King’s zippy work returns to the small-town Maine locale of The Dead Zone, Cujo and other early novels…. extremely well-paced… a fun read that never loses momentum…. Gwendy’s Button Box feels like it belongs in this locale that’s always been a pit stop for scary Americana and the normal turned deadly…. Nicely captures that same winning dichotomy between the innocent and the sinister.”
“Absorbing…. This bite-size gem of a story packs quite a punch.”
“Man, I love this story! The whole thing just races and feels so right-sized and so scarily and sadly relevant. Loved the characters… and the sense of one little girl’s connection to the whole world through this weird device. It all just sang.”