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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
medium-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
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
As has been my recent trend, if I don't know what to listen to next, I'll just find a King audiobook to fill the void. I grabbed Revival with literally no background of the plot. It showed up in my queue and I hit play blind, and I'd say that was a good choice.
I won't go to much into the overall plot, but just focus on the character building that King did in this book that made it for me. Starting when the main character Jamie is 6 or so, he meets Reverend Jacobs, and from that simple meeting, we follow the two of them as they weave in and out of each other's lives for the next 50+ years. The Reverend finds power in God, then loses his faith, and ultimately finds power in the science of electricity. This leads to both amazing and terrible things as you'd expect from King.
Jamie struggles just as much as the Reverend in life throughout his journey, and both wouldn't have gotten through certain struggles without the Reverend, but also can't escape him no matter how hard he tries.
In the end, I loved the slow burn of following Jamie throughout literally his entire life, and while I wasn't as big a fan of the bat shit crazy ending out of nowhere, I'll let it slide since the journey up to that point was so unexpectedly satisfying. It's going to be a divisive book for sure. As even with me saying I enjoyed the book in the end, I still had a love/hate relationship with it as I powered through. I'd say it's worth your time if you are a King fan, and may be something unique to anything you've read lately even if you're not.
I won't go to much into the overall plot, but just focus on the character building that King did in this book that made it for me. Starting when the main character Jamie is 6 or so, he meets Reverend Jacobs, and from that simple meeting, we follow the two of them as they weave in and out of each other's lives for the next 50+ years. The Reverend finds power in God, then loses his faith, and ultimately finds power in the science of electricity. This leads to both amazing and terrible things as you'd expect from King.
Jamie struggles just as much as the Reverend in life throughout his journey, and both wouldn't have gotten through certain struggles without the Reverend, but also can't escape him no matter how hard he tries.
In the end, I loved the slow burn of following Jamie throughout literally his entire life, and while I wasn't as big a fan of the bat shit crazy ending out of nowhere, I'll let it slide since the journey up to that point was so unexpectedly satisfying. It's going to be a divisive book for sure. As even with me saying I enjoyed the book in the end, I still had a love/hate relationship with it as I powered through. I'd say it's worth your time if you are a King fan, and may be something unique to anything you've read lately even if you're not.
I'm not really sure how I feel about this one.
It's not what I expected, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. King writes weird books. I know this, and yet, I'm always kinda taken off guard when it gets weird and this book is no exception to that.
It's not what I expected, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. King writes weird books. I know this, and yet, I'm always kinda taken off guard when it gets weird and this book is no exception to that.
Stephen King's take on the late gothic formula. A great story, which goes to unexpected places with expected results, and which culminates in an uncanny and (possibly) unforgettable ending. The novel pairs well with other King stories, like 'The Dreamers' and 'N.'. It is in fact their companion in their paranoid, obsessed and frank horror.
"...at the end of your life, you're lucky if you die,
Sometimes I wonder why we even try."
Sometimes I wonder why we even try."
Touches on many of the same themes as Pet Sematary, but I actually liked this more.