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This book had to grow on me a bit, it’s was fun and entertaining at first and got more interesting and freighting along the way. One of the five stars is for Seth Numrich who’s style was a great for this book and he really boosted on the freighting parts.

tlovetx's review

3.0

3.5 ⭐️

mschristine's review

5.0

dark emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

keithlafo's review against another edition

4.0

On a reread, I think I enjoyed King's voice here more than I initially appreciated. It's calm, cool, confident, and it flows with remarkable ease (yeah, yeah, yeah; right, right, right). The story also worked for me a bit more than it did my first time through.

I'm still mixed on the reveal at the end of the book. It still feels unnecessary. But I do appreciate how this book fits into the larger King mythos and universe.

drkottke's review against another edition

4.0

Another fine book from my favorite. For me, this was the most satisfying of the three books King has written for Hard Case Crime, and it sticks the landing well in that space between a crime novel and a horror novel (and a coming of age novel, for that matter). The plot is tight and propulsive, and the character voices work. Usually, there's one or two characters in the average King novel whose dialogue hits my ear wrong. Not here. I devoured the first half in one sitting, then spaced out the rest of the reading over the week. Could have done it in one setting if I'd started earlier in the day last Sunday.