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Later by Stephen King

33 reviews

britainmic's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Addiction, Blood, Gore, Violence, Death, Dementia, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Vomit, Suicide, and Murder

Minor: Incest

louie's review

adventurous dark emotional tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

Its so rare to have a malicious character happen to be queer instead of being malicious because they are queer and credit where credit is due Stephen King did this Very Well.

Ive always enjoyed non linear storytelling (I also enjoy when a medium using non linear storytelling shouts out another work using non linear storytelling hellooo saw reference!! made me very happy ty mr king :P) and I enjoyed Jamies narration through his lives most harrowing experiences quite a lot.
He’s an incredibly sympathetic and believable character. Which is another credit to Stephen King considering he hasn’t been a child or teenager in a while and he managed to make me (someone who is almost exactly Jamies age and therefore was a kid in the early 2000s like he was) believe wholeheartedly that this a peers story I’m being told.

All the little (and big) nudges and references, if you can call them that, to It especially were exciting to me personally. Since that particular bit of King legacy introduced me into horror as a genre and i pretty much don’t function normally anymore whenever Maine, Sewers or Clowns or in this case Deadlights are brought up. All in all i had a pretty good time with this and would read more about Jamies run ins with the dead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Grief and Kidnapping

Minor: Murder and Toxic relationship

delinxw's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Addiction, Alcohol, Child abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Vomit, Cursing, Drug use, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Violence, Emotional abuse, Rape, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Dementia, Incest, Sexual violence, Blood, and Toxic relationship

lakea's review

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Gore, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Death, Grief, Murder, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit

Moderate: Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Terminal illness, Child death, Trafficking, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Toxic relationship, Torture, Gun violence, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Incest

onion's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Blood, Stalking, Drug abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Alcohol, Addiction, Alcoholism, Ableism, Dementia, and Gun violence

Minor: Fatphobia, Homophobia, Incest, Vomit, Sexual content, Rape, Body shaming, Car accident, Lesbophobia, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Suicide

samburkhouse's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Violence, Drug use, and Gore

Moderate: Addiction, Dementia, Incest, Murder, Stalking, and Sexual assault

Minor: Vomit, Gun violence, and Medical content

arnold_shelby's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, Death, and Dementia

Moderate: Terminal illness, Alcohol, Body horror, Murder, Addiction, and Vomit

Minor: Incest, Child death, and Kidnapping

jaychayka7777's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction and Drug use

teoboy's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Child death, Drug use, and Violence

Moderate: Incest, Terminal illness, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Blood

Minor: Vomit and Suicide

ftjulez's review against another edition

dark funny tense medium-paced

4.25

I really liked this book!! More than i expected i would honestly. up until a certain point nothing was so Stephen King-y that it made me roll my eyes (until it got really stephen king-y really fast, but there is not a SINGLE reference to menstruation or a single racial slur in this entire book!! good job steve). 

My two complaints:

This man knows NOTHINGGG about being born in the year 2000. This book was mostly taking place in like 2012 without a single acknowledgement of either red skinny jeans or the classic song party rock anthem by LMFAO. this protagonist was supposed to be i think four months younger than me and i get that he was quirky and different and not like the other boys but i still think stephen shouldve hired me as a cultural history consultant. 

My second complaint is that the Maury shit at the end came out of NOWHEREEEE!!!!! I was perfectly happy with this fatherless young man and his gayass mom and then in the last fuckin twenty pages Stephen had to go completely apeshit. IYKYK i guess but frankly i want to go back in time and unread the last little bit of the book because i dont CARE and it was WEIRD!!!! 

Oh also this is a spoiler but it was weird that the one guy mentioned that the gayass mom had cancer and six months to live and then that was never addressed again and the mom lived at LEAST multiple more years. But i guess that guy who said it was also a demon and maybe also the same flavor of demon as my best friend pennywise since this book was apparently maybe also in the same universe as the clown books so i guess maybe he told a lie? Who knows but that confused me. I wish that he hadnt used the term “deadlights” and all the ritual of chud stuff because everything else about this book made fine sense to me as a stand alone novel but then it had to be recontextualized any time that shit came up. Anyway im going to bed 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Drug abuse, Body horror, Death, Violence, Murder, Kidnapping, Gore, Fatphobia, Drug use, Blood, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Vomit, Terminal illness, and Sexual violence

Minor: Incest, Police brutality, Torture, Abortion, Cancer, Car accident, Addiction, War, and Death of parent