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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Still in progress but I'm into this Eve bitch. :)))
Ok so it didn't work out for me like I was hoping. It wasn't a "bad book" but I felt the author was a little heavy-handed with the gender roles. Like a magnifying glass was used on male flaws to the point of caricature but the flaws in women were glossed over or ignored completely.
For the entire last half of the book my reading experience felt like
It felt imbalanced to me in a way that had me thinking about the authors choices rather than the story. Political agenda also had a hand in that.
I liked the premise. I loved Eve Black and the women's prison. The idea of "Our Place" was pretty cool. There were some moments I really enjoyed but not my favorite SK :(
Ok so it didn't work out for me like I was hoping. It wasn't a "bad book" but I felt the author was a little heavy-handed with the gender roles. Like a magnifying glass was used on male flaws to the point of caricature but the flaws in women were glossed over or ignored completely.
For the entire last half of the book my reading experience felt like
It felt imbalanced to me in a way that had me thinking about the authors choices rather than the story. Political agenda also had a hand in that.
I liked the premise. I loved Eve Black and the women's prison. The idea of "Our Place" was pretty cool. There were some moments I really enjoyed but not my favorite SK :(
slow-paced
Fairly early on in this book, I caught myself thinking: Is this a horror novel or a feminist tract? It's like the old Certs commercial: It's a breath mint! It's a candy mint! It's TWO THINGS IN ONE!
Mind you, I've got no problem with feminist tracts especially in this day and age when there is so much effing misogyny on display, especially in the American government. The idea that women could be lost to what we think of as "our" world, leaving all the men behind by themselves, is both intriguing and a little worrisome. What happens to the women when they disappear is also interesting.
Also: the woman?/supernatural entity?/goddess??? that facilitates everything that happens to the women? In the book she goes by the name "Eve Black" or "Evie." I immediately thought of The Three Faces of Eve, where "Eve White" (quiet housewife), "Eve Black" (party girl and barfly) were two personalities inhabiting one body. (The initial 3rd personality was "Jane," who seemed to be a synthesis of the two, at least for a while. Look it up. It's interesting, sad story.) I don't know if the authors had TTFoE in mind, but it wouldn't surprise me.
There are little bits of magical realism here and there through the book. The moths, the fox, the rats, and the other animals have interesting parts to play, though they seem like they came from a slightly different book.
It's a bit of interesting speculation on male/female relationships. Many of the female characters are from a prison. The way one character was narrated really made me think of the character Pennsatucky Doggett from Orange is the New Black.
The narration was fine. The narrator wasn't especially good with Southern accents, but I didn't find her distracting.
I think the whole story goes on a bit too long. It also gets pretty intense and violent at the big climax. But I thought it was ok. A perfectly cromulent collaboration between the two authors.
Mind you, I've got no problem with feminist tracts especially in this day and age when there is so much effing misogyny on display, especially in the American government. The idea that women could be lost to what we think of as "our" world, leaving all the men behind by themselves, is both intriguing and a little worrisome. What happens to the women when they disappear is also interesting.
Also: the woman?/supernatural entity?/goddess??? that facilitates everything that happens to the women? In the book she goes by the name "Eve Black" or "Evie." I immediately thought of The Three Faces of Eve, where "Eve White" (quiet housewife), "Eve Black" (party girl and barfly) were two personalities inhabiting one body. (The initial 3rd personality was "Jane," who seemed to be a synthesis of the two, at least for a while. Look it up. It's interesting, sad story.) I don't know if the authors had TTFoE in mind, but it wouldn't surprise me.
There are little bits of magical realism here and there through the book. The moths, the fox, the rats, and the other animals have interesting parts to play, though they seem like they came from a slightly different book.
It's a bit of interesting speculation on male/female relationships. Many of the female characters are from a prison. The way one character was narrated really made me think of the character Pennsatucky Doggett from Orange is the New Black.
The narration was fine. The narrator wasn't especially good with Southern accents, but I didn't find her distracting.
I think the whole story goes on a bit too long. It also gets pretty intense and violent at the big climax. But I thought it was ok. A perfectly cromulent collaboration between the two authors.
War nett, aber nicht wirklich spannend und sehr woke. (Wogegen nichts an und für sich einzuwenden wäre, aber ich möchte es nicht per Trichter serviert bekommen)
The worst SK book I have ever read even though I suspect it was mostly Owen's work. It was conpletely derivative of other better novels like The Stand and Under The Dome, but none of the character development that made those books what they were. Instead this is like an overly long non stop political screed in novel form with 10,000 characters none of whom you care about plodding through a plot that makes little sense.
This book seems to have been written with the idea to shoehorn in as many left wing tropes into the narrative as possible. That includes a ridiculously tacked on part near the end about a white police officer killing an armed black suspect.
Even if you like left wing and hyper feminist politics though I would still not recommend this book. It has nothing that make other King books so great. I would have DNFed this book had I not listened to the audio book at 2x speed. If you're working your way through the King catalog pass this up and go right to The Outsider.
This book seems to have been written with the idea to shoehorn in as many left wing tropes into the narrative as possible. That includes a ridiculously tacked on part near the end about a white police officer killing an armed black suspect.
Even if you like left wing and hyper feminist politics though I would still not recommend this book. It has nothing that make other King books so great. I would have DNFed this book had I not listened to the audio book at 2x speed. If you're working your way through the King catalog pass this up and go right to The Outsider.
Stephen King writes another excellent designed book that is excuted well with alot of detail and action that will keep you intrigued throughout the book. King takes an idea of sleeping beauties and expand it to a 700 page novel that can captivate readers.