1 August 2025

Welcome to a new reviewer!

Krystelle
‘Neptunes Bounty’

I wrote last month that I had a rather long break from reading and working on the website because we moved our office into our son’s old bedroom and soundproofed it to escape noise from a construction next door. For a while it felt like there wouldn’t be much done on the website. But I got back to it and things began to come together again.

A most welcome development came in the last few days with an email from Krystelle, who offered to write a review for Stephen King’s Carrie. In fact, Krystelle was offering to write a series of reviews for Stephen King’s novels in the order they were published. Krystelle is a prolific reader and she has written many reviews for Goodreads and has what I consider to be a pretty healthy following on that platform. Naturally, we were pretty excited to receive this offer. Krystelle is, in fact, a work colleague of Toriaz, one of the founding reviewers for this site, and they have often discussed books and reading at work. Krystelle has also been subscribing to our monthly newsletter since November last year.

Krystelle will be known by the reviewer name ‘NeptunesBounty’ on this website. In one of her emails, she said she would explain why she chose that name, then seems to have forgotten to. No doubt she will enlighten me another time. In the meantime, I’m looking forward to her first review which I should receive sometime this coming weekend. I will post it on Monday. Thanks to Krystelle for her generous offer to contribute, and welcome!

- bikerbuddy