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Pet Sematary by Stephen King

37 reviews

sexualedward's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Grief, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Gore, Car accident, Cursing, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Gun violence, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol and War

prathamaparab's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Not scary enough and this is coming from someone who is petrified at the slightest tone of horror.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Terminal illness, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Death

__thalia__'s review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Death, Gore, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, and Terminal illness

ogik's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Chronic illness, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Vomit

billiesgotbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Cursing, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Terminal illness, and Violence

georgia6883's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Terminal illness, and Violence

afelice's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

When I started my research into which horror novels - King specifically - would be best to read, “Pet Semetary” came up in almost every list. After finishing the book, I can see why it’s at the top of everyone’s list. This book was….dark. It was scary, but not in the way I expected. It was emotional and it was sad. I follow a reviewer on YouTube and he mentioned how he read PS as a 15year old and then again as an adult with children and he mentioned it was terrifying at both readings for different reasons and that makes so much sense. As someone without kids, the lore and the “beings” in this book can be terrifying, but as someone who is around kids a lot, I can see how it’s even more terrifying given what events transpire in parts 2 and 3.

I will say that the first part is kind of slow and is really focused on character development and building the mystery behind the Pet Semetary and the beings that may be around the surrounding woods; however, part 2 and 3 take off and you are pretty much white knuckling it the rest of the way. 

Outstanding read! Also….I read about half of the book on my own and listened to half in audio book form and I cannot recommend the audio book enough. Michael C. Hall does an amazing job narrating the story - he really added to the overall atmosphere. 5/5 AWESOME! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Car accident, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Violence