Brief synopsis: One morning during her daily jog, 12 year old Gwendy (a mix of Gwendolyn and Wendy) meets a mysterious stranger in the park. Though she knows not to talk to strangers, her curiosity wins and he gifts her with a special box filled with buttons. He warns her of the responsibility and power that lay within the button box, and Gwendy takes it with her as her own.



This novella is super short, clocking in at around 160 pages. I'm a big fan of Stephen King, having grown up on his movies, but the past few years I've been becoming more accustomed to his novels. They're usually quiet brick-ish, so they take some investment, but a short little thing like Gwendy's Button Box I was able to finish in hours, so it was the perfect book to wrap up 2018.

Of course the story was great, as was the writing. The book was terribly scary in typical King fashion, but was haunting more in a Black Mirror kind of way. There's one part, where Gwendy's family is watching the news that I read a few times because it was such an unexpected twist, and was done so well.

I thoroughly enjoyed this novella and can't recommend it enough!