Abandoned by Booklikes
Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night!
Currently reading
Reading progress update: I've read 100%.
Hmmm I don’t know. I think the second half just didn’t hold up. I did love the connections to the Dark Tower, It, Bag of Bones, The Library Policeman, and of course The Bill Hodges trilogy. Just don’t think this will be in my top five King books. I think the main issue was as a reader you are waiting for the certain characters in this book to catch on to what is going on.
I think that Ralph who I would consider one of the main characters in this book just wasn’t compelling to me. King seemed to save all of his character development for Holly. I just wasn’t in the mood for a naysayer who just ignored what was going on. Ralph and Holly worked well together though. Thank goodness King resisted the urge to have Holly say poopy and fracking every minute too.
The plot about the brutal murder of a young boy was hard to read, but I think breaking the book up with excerpts from interviews and medical reports took something out of the first half of the book. Once you realize something is funky with the police investigation you just want the book to hurry up and get on with it.
I don't know how I feel about the resolution either. It felt a bit unfinished. I was looking for a King ending and this seems softer compared to the brutality that came before it. I still think of how “Revival” freaked me out for days. I couldn’t stop re-reading it. I did re-read parts of this book, but I don’t see me thinking on this one too long. Then again I’m happy I won’t have nightmares after finishing this book. This was very engrossing and hard to put down. I think King’s constant readers will love this one.
Still would give this a very strong four stars!
6