Havock Junction

Think this would have been better as a novella rather than a novel. It meandered like the roads the family were stuck on and just seemed to go on and on, to the point where I didn't care about their fates and hoped they would just plummet off one of the freeways they travelled (so many Americanisms in this book, like freeway, asphalt and roadhouse for a book based in Scotland and featuring a British family, annoying). Saying this, I was going to give a 2 star, then about 3/4 of the way through a new character was introduced, a sort of ‘“gunslinger”and the action seemed to build up, hence the 3. I kept thinking, whilst reading this, that Stephen King would have done this material so much justice, the single parent, stuck on a never ending road, trying to protect her family from the dangers all around, right up his street (or down his road).