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Very gruesome and suspenseful. This was a great book to listen to in the car. I'm so glad this will be a trilogy. I loved every second of this glorious story.

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3.0

It's a case of "I would give it a 3,5 if Goodreads let me".

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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3.0

For once, the dog doesn't get it!

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4.0

Listened to this on audio, and loved the narrator. He really brought Bill Hodges, Mr. Mercedes and Holly Gibney to life for me. This wasn't your typical Stephen King novel, it was more of a hard-boiled detective novel but still had King's writing mastery. I picked it up when I saw his recent release Holly was a character from this series and wanted to read this trilogy first before diving into Holly. I will definitely continue along with the trilogy to see what comes next for Bill Hodges, he's an interesting and likeable character!

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Thoroughly enjoyed dipping into some Stephen King again - it's been a while, welcome back my old friend!

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4.0

My first Stephen King book! I enjoyed reading this one, especially towards the end I couldn’t put it down. The writing often filled me with dread and made me wonder why the hell I was reading this book while settling down for sleep. I did have a few gripes with some aspects of the book. Hodges being set on not involving the police felt silly to me, especially at the end of the book when he tried to call Pete and inform him of what’s happening but decides the police are too tied up with celebrating a crime bust to give a fuck about a very real bomb threat at a sold out kids show ………. It caused me not to like Hodges which I was very fine with, I didn’t find him to be a super likable character. The other issue that kept popping up for me was King’s treatment of minorities in this book. Jerome switching dialects throughout the book and being belittled for the one he uses around his family caused me to feel like there were deeper issues being shone to light other than just the characters in the book having problems with race. I didn’t pick up on minorities in the book, such as Jerome and Freddi, having character development past being a minority and exemplifying very small minded stereotypes of that minority. Nonetheless, the book still kept me reading and I’ll definitely check out other works by Stephen King as well.

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