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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
I flew through this book once I got started. Loved it!
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
I started to wonder where exactly this book was going so I looked up a summary and I don’t think I’m really invested enough in the story for what happens. I’ve heard that this was inspired by Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein, and I can see where that is true, but not in the way I had thought or would find interesting. I think King is great at creating characters and has some really interesting ideas, but he looses me in his execution a lot of the time. I think if this has been retooled to be a story about a junkie band member who encounters Lovecraftian horrors it would be more interesting than a junkie band member who meets up with his old fraud of a pastor who wants to revive a dead woman and instead brings a Lovecraftian horror into our dimension through her body. See why I lost interest? The set up to that story and the set up in the story don’t exactly align in my mind, but maybe that’s just me
I still think about the ending of this book and not in a good way. Nightmares in a significant, life shaking way.
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
well, now I'm scared of the afterlife. Thanks Uncle Stevie!
dark
mysterious
sad
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
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
it was an experience
I was tempted to give this book my first 1 star review in several years but I think the idea behind the book makes it worth 1.5 stars, so I will round up. I found nothing wrong with the plot. Done correctly, this could have been one of Kings best stories, but reading through Jamie Morton's life story was so tedious any positives from the plot evaporate. I don't know if I have ever read a full length book that so obviously should have been a novella more so than Revival. Had King cut 200 or so pages out of this book, and only kept the somewhat interesting parts that involved Rev. Jacobs then this likely would have been a fun read, but the slog of reading through the book killed any momentum that the occasionally interesting scenes piqued. Additionally, the craziness of the ending seemed out of place in a book where the whole theme seemed to be dull pointlessness. I like what King was trying to do, but I don't he delivered in this offering. I read Stephen King because I find his books to be high quality, interesting, and fun to read. I found this book to be none of the above and it currently stands as my least favorite of his works.