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Pet Sematary

Stephen King

4.01 AVERAGE

makersonie's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

_nikita's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A tragic bird's-eye view into a family dealing with grief and pain, it was equally terrifying and gut-wrenching. Although I've watched the 2019 adaptation anticipating most of its horror elements I was completely caught off guard by the emotional heaviness and dread building up throughout this book. The events that transpired with the Creed family which can be described as a trainwreck you couldn't look away from but devastating too since you've been following this seemingly normal family wrecked with suffering after suffering will stick with me forever. This book reminds me of the short tale I've thoroughly enjoyed when I was younger but found the ending anticlamactic,

The Monkey's Paw by W.W Jacobs

(also referenced in this story). It is definitely it's darker counterpart serving as a better follow-up dwelling deeper into the same concept. As this was my first novel by Stephen King I found it intimidating to start ngl and didn't expect his writing to be so accessible and fluid will definitely be checking out more of his works in the future

Content Warnings

lintskukka's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

witchytangerine's review

4.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

alexblxr's review against another edition

4.5

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ldaal24's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

juanarenado's review against another edition

5.0

Hay determinados escritores en los que puedes confiar. Sabes, con un alto grado de seguridad, que no te van a defraudar. Yo tengo unos cuantos en esa lista, pero sin duda, el más destacado de ella es Stephen King. Da igual la historia, el tema elegido, los personajes, etc; King es tan bueno contando historias, que todo lo demás pasa a un segundo plano.

En este caso, la historia que cuenta en "Pet Sematary" es de las que dan miedo, mucho miedo. Es increible ver como una vida perfecta y cómoda se puede transformar, página a página, en una de las peores pesadillas que alguien se pueda imaginar. Os puedo asegurar que la sensación de agobio y desasosiego que he experimentado en el último tercio de la novela es de aúpa. Es mas, creo que todavía tengo esa sensación.

Si no habéis leído esta novela y os gusta el estilo de Stephen King (cosa muy normal), no perdáis más tiempo y poneos a ello. No os arrepentiréis.

Ah, y cuando estéis leyendo la novela por la noche, no olvidéis comprobar puertas y ventanas, por lo que pueda pasar…