11.1k reviews for:

Pet Sematary

Stephen King

4.01 AVERAGE

luke_p167's review against another edition

5.0

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Macabre and disturbing from start to end. Perfect.

abyssinian's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

dapro5's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kelseymccabe1's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

ktown03's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

kristen_monique's review against another edition

4.25

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

theasiimonsen's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

aquagirl111's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

book_dragon_bel's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad tense

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Although only my third Stephen King book, I'm fast starting to love his work! 
This was more disturbing than frightening for me, and I eagerly devoured the chapters needing to know what happened next.
I can completely understand why, after writing this, the author put it away in a drawer as he had gone 'too far'. I would be frightened at having where I'd managed to come up with the idea from!!
The writing itself is excellent, and I love how he hides little 'Easter eggs' of his other works in his books. I also like the way he manages to take the reader into the characters' heads by way of a running commentary. 
I did spend the last part of the book hoping against hope that we were in one of the characters' dreams as had happened earlier in the book, regardless, I did think it had a really good ending.
I can see this one being up there as one of my favourite ones by the author.

rrgitt's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad 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: Yes

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I know it is a horror book, but the horror felt secondary to the human emotions highlighted in the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Grief