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Not one of my favourites. It somehow kept me reading but finished wondering what I had just read... The writing is brilliant as always but just not sure about the story.
Not one of my favourites. It somehow kept me reading but finished wondering what I had just read... The writing is brilliant as always but just not sure about the story.
I am finding that sometimes I need to read a few chapters of Stephen King's books before I can get into them. Usually, once I start to understand where he is going, I find them really interesting. For example I started and stopped reading "Sleeping Beauties". Then I started it again and really loved it. This book was the same, mainly because the name Revival made me think of a religious story and I just was not in the mood for it. Finally, I pushed myself to continue reading and found it did have a religious bend, but with a really odd twist. I do feel it took a long time to get to the climax, but I totally understand why. The end really leaves you thinking and wondering what happens when we die? Are evangelists who heal really helping or not? What should we believe?
I think reading this books was well worth it and as usual meets Stephen King's history of good writing. I do recommend you reading it and be patient, it gets better as you continue.
I think reading this books was well worth it and as usual meets Stephen King's history of good writing. I do recommend you reading it and be patient, it gets better as you continue.
This is quite possibly the first Stephen King novel that genuinely horrified me. I've always enjoyed the horror of King and read most of his books, with the exception of his earliest work. Bag of Bones, It, Lisey's Story, Under the Dome, Duma Key...all just a small sampling of what I've read of his enormous body of work, all it geared to touching the raw nerves of human fear.
But none of those previous stories chilled me the way this one did. In spite of a titular veneer of Christian evangelism and plenty of Christian references within the story itself, its true inspiration seems to be Lovecraftian in nature and derives its impact from the helpless terror of the inevitability of mortality. Maybe it's because I'm much older now than when I read his previous novels or maybe it's just that this particular book hit a nerve peculiarly raw to me, but finishing this novel left me with daylight chills and nights filled with terrors for days afterward.
Proceed with caution, fellow readers.
But none of those previous stories chilled me the way this one did. In spite of a titular veneer of Christian evangelism and plenty of Christian references within the story itself, its true inspiration seems to be Lovecraftian in nature and derives its impact from the helpless terror of the inevitability of mortality. Maybe it's because I'm much older now than when I read his previous novels or maybe it's just that this particular book hit a nerve peculiarly raw to me, but finishing this novel left me with daylight chills and nights filled with terrors for days afterward.
Proceed with caution, fellow readers.
Not my favourite King book, however found the ending very disturbing so he certainly succeeded on that level.
As always Stephen King captures my interest. But there's a point where I think the book should be over, and it keeps going. I understand there are some wrap-up details, but I don't really need all of them.
Stephan King, always entertaining. Even if his current books aren't as good as some of the books from the beginning of his carreer (and my god, how could they) they are still damn enjoyable. I always get pulled right into the story; I'm always interested to find out "what happens next". I'm one of his constant readers and I will be until the bitter end. And yeah, sometimes the endings are kind of hard to swallow! LOL! Love, you Stevarino.
Old school horror from the master. The horrors take their sweet time coming. But then they arrive. Classic King.
I just love a Stephen king book. It’s pretty amazing that half the book just goes into detail about a family and their day to day lives. Moving into some dark times for the youngest as he looses the plot a bit.
You get completely drawn in any it only near the middle that you go oh no. Something is wrong here.
Only along could hold you for half a book before starting to steadily unnerve you. Our ‘bad guy’ in this instance is what seems to be a mad scientist who you actually do feel for at certain points because of a tragedy near the beginning of the book. He’s got lots of layers and it’s certainly shows of the one track obsessive mind as being incredibly creepy.
And the ending is.... bonkers. At first I thought this had jumped the shark but then I really liked it. I’d not thought about that before as an end to things. Really horrible and upsetting.
This is a book about religion I think, but turned up to 11 and gone wrong. Don’t read this book if you are really ill. This is not the book for you.
I swear there is a cheeky little Dan Brown knock near the end which made me very happy. Nice one mr King.
You get completely drawn in any it only near the middle that you go oh no. Something is wrong here.
Only along could hold you for half a book before starting to steadily unnerve you. Our ‘bad guy’ in this instance is what seems to be a mad scientist who you actually do feel for at certain points because of a tragedy near the beginning of the book. He’s got lots of layers and it’s certainly shows of the one track obsessive mind as being incredibly creepy.
And the ending is.... bonkers. At first I thought this had jumped the shark but then I really liked it. I’d not thought about that before as an end to things. Really horrible and upsetting.
This is a book about religion I think, but turned up to 11 and gone wrong. Don’t read this book if you are really ill. This is not the book for you.
I swear there is a cheeky little Dan Brown knock near the end which made me very happy. Nice one mr King.
I never thought I’d say this, but Revival is a book so overtly simple and derivative in its plot that I find it hard to believe that SK actually wrote it. There’s no real mention of Claire other than a cursory “She was a victim of domestic violence”, nor any real connection to any of the characters. Hell, even Gage Creed could have popped up and made a bigger impact than the Jacobs boy.