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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Religious bigotry
Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
4.5⭐
"Everybody's on their own kind of Mystery Walk, following the trail of their days and doing the best with what life throws at them. Sometimes it's mighty hard to figure out what's right and wrong in this mixed-up world."
Mystery Walk is my first McCammon book, and I was not disappointed. This was a buddy read with Twitter friends, and I really enjoyed the book. It actually reminded me of The Dead Zone by Stephen King, but not in a way like one of them was copying the other - they just express similar sentiments.
This is an intriguing coming-of-age story with paranormal elements. It's set in Alabama in the 80s, and there were a lot of dark things happening. Obviously it was super racist, and bad people in the story claimed to do evil acts for religious purposes. Being from the south, I can relate to some of the villains of this book being shitty evangelicals who believe they're doing the right thing.
Robert McCammon does a great job with in-depth character studies while still creating interesting settings and storylines. My main complaint, and why it's 4.5 stars instead of 5, is because there were so many cool storylines, and not enough time was able to be spent on all of them. I kind of wish this book would have been a series. There's the weird town with a murder house, a carnival, the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning (not really, but close enough), etc.
I would have liked to spend more time in certain aspects of the story, and I feel like some plot points just dropped off since it moved onto the next big setting pretty quickly. Some parts were a little too over-the-top, and some just didn't have enough going on.
I loved this book, and I will definitely be reading more McCammon.
"Everybody's on their own kind of Mystery Walk, following the trail of their days and doing the best with what life throws at them. Sometimes it's mighty hard to figure out what's right and wrong in this mixed-up world."
Mystery Walk is my first McCammon book, and I was not disappointed. This was a buddy read with Twitter friends, and I really enjoyed the book. It actually reminded me of The Dead Zone by Stephen King, but not in a way like one of them was copying the other - they just express similar sentiments.
This is an intriguing coming-of-age story with paranormal elements. It's set in Alabama in the 80s, and there were a lot of dark things happening. Obviously it was super racist, and bad people in the story claimed to do evil acts for religious purposes. Being from the south, I can relate to some of the villains of this book being shitty evangelicals who believe they're doing the right thing.
Robert McCammon does a great job with in-depth character studies while still creating interesting settings and storylines. My main complaint, and why it's 4.5 stars instead of 5, is because there were so many cool storylines, and not enough time was able to be spent on all of them. I kind of wish this book would have been a series. There's the weird town with a murder house, a carnival, the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning (not really, but close enough), etc.
I would have liked to spend more time in certain aspects of the story, and I feel like some plot points just dropped off since it moved onto the next big setting pretty quickly. Some parts were a little too over-the-top, and some just didn't have enough going on.
I loved this book, and I will definitely be reading more McCammon.
This is really a killer horror novel. There are some truly scary scenes, and even when it's not scary it's a compelling read with a compelling storyline and dynamic, interesting characters that you care about or, in some instances, love to hate.
This was my second foray into the writing of Robert McCammon and I wasn't disappointed either time. The first book I read was Swan Song, which managed to keep me interested in spite of the fact that it was a hefty post-apocalyptic novel, and I'm generally really burned out on post-apocalyptic stuff. I enjoyed this book even more. I'm definitely going to have to read all of his work, now, and I can't think of anything that illustrates better how much I enjoyed this than that fact.
This was my second foray into the writing of Robert McCammon and I wasn't disappointed either time. The first book I read was Swan Song, which managed to keep me interested in spite of the fact that it was a hefty post-apocalyptic novel, and I'm generally really burned out on post-apocalyptic stuff. I enjoyed this book even more. I'm definitely going to have to read all of his work, now, and I can't think of anything that illustrates better how much I enjoyed this than that fact.
mysterious
reflective
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
This book wasn't bad, but neither was it compelling. A story of a young Choctaw boy growing into manhood and discovering his family's history of powers to hear and heal ghosts.
There are interesting moments, and the overall battle between good and evil is compelling, but there are a few too many plots to follow, and it gets muddy and then resolved too quickly.
There are interesting moments, and the overall battle between good and evil is compelling, but there are a few too many plots to follow, and it gets muddy and then resolved too quickly.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Just a note for others looking for diverse books, I wouldn't call this book diverse even though the main character and his mother are part Native American. All of other characters of any significance/speaking parts are white. And his father and his father's friends are Klan members.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Death of parent
Moderate: Xenophobia, Death of parent