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Pet Sematary by Stephen King

79 reviews

mitsuki's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism and Violence

planetshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Sexual content, Gore, Cursing, Car accident, Child death, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol and Infidelity

skylar_cr_wolf's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The book run smoothly most of the time despite that one scene.

It was the moment when the student died and the way it was described left me in a 3 month pause to read this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Gore

Moderate: Death, Animal death, Violence, Child death, and Death of parent

rwilcox's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

This is my first Stephen King book. The quality of the writing is outstanding. The post was slow at first and seemed to drag on, but everything was important. It really picked up at the end. 

I wonder what happened to Ellie.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Medical trauma, Violence, Child death, and Death of parent

saskia6's review

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? It's complicated

5.0

i have no words honestly

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Medical content, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Violence, Cannibalism, Cursing, and Suicidal thoughts

kawooreads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I listened to the 2018 audiobook narrated by Michael C. Hall, and it was outstanding. The 1989 original movie is one of the most iconic horror movies of my generation. Although I haven't watched the movie in a long time, I can remember in detail  the story frame by frame because it scared me immensely as a kid. The book is perhaps my favorite King I have read thus far (the list I've read is short). Just a masterpiece although it doesn't pass my test which is challenging King to write a story that doesn't mention a woman's breasts/nipples in a creeper sort of way at least once. I had no idea King wrote this based on an experience he had where his young son waa almost hit by a large truck in the road by their home. In his author's note, King remarks that this story of "what if?" is the scariest story he has ever written.  Michael C. Hall does an incredible job narrating and his Jud Crandall voice at times made me think Fred Gwynne was going to crawl out of my headphones. Now I can't wait to re-watch the movies. Perfect book for October! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Cursing, Gore, Medical content, Murder, and Violence

megselyane's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Violence, Mental illness, Animal death, Car accident, Child death, Gore, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Sexism, Misogyny, Vomit, and Sexual content

amiegold's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

Oh man, what a ride.  I think this is the best portrayal of death and grieving that I have ever read.  King explores different kinds of death, as well as different reactions to it.  He even touches on different religions and views of death.   His portrayal of a funeral hit spot on.  

And in all reality, if most people had a chance to bring someone they loved back from the dead, especially in those painful first days, wouldn't they give anything to do it?

I didn’t love the condescending way Louis treats Rachel, even if it’s coming from a good place.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Car accident, Murder, Child death, Violence, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Gaslighting

Minor: Sexual content, Cursing, and Sexism

ladybocknite's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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

4.5

I found this book to be really slow until 70 or 80% of the way into it. The narrator was really good though. I find the conversation topic of the book(death) to be really interesting and how it’s discussed. We see someone spiral because of grief and make choices that they think are good,but in the end aren’t. King’s characters don’t asked to be redeemed unlike most modern stories. They are just who they are and that’s it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Gore, Grief, Child death, Body horror, Medical trauma, Blood, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Animal death

Moderate: Violence, Sexual content, and Murder

Minor: Cannibalism

our_bookish_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

It has been well over 15 years since I last read Pet Sematary and I am so happy I got to read it again. I had forgotten so much about this book and how much I actually love it. This has to be one of the few books that SK wrote that isn't long-winded and drones on the whole time. Don't get me wrong, there were some parts where this fid happen, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. There's such a creepy and great atmosphere, and the pacing is just perfect. I must admit, I think some parts went by too fast while other parts (that I personally didn't think mattered much) were lingered on. You can bet that I will read this again. Oh yes, I will read this again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Alcohol, Animal death, Medical trauma, Murder, Violence, Blood, and Cursing

Moderate: Sexual content and Suicidal thoughts