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Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Stalking
Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Antisemitism, Car accident
Graphic: Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
I will give King credit, the Kennedy Assassination is a complex and long-winded network of errors in the US police force and special forces, including the FBI. The concept was interesting, but the story just felt drawn out and intercepting moments did not need to happen. Unlike other King stories, I wasn't sold on the relationships between the protagonist and his beau. The leading man Jake Epping/George Amberson and the bonny young lass sidekick Sadie Dunhill spend most of the novel together and yet I did not feel the chemistry.
I will argue, I prefer King's horrors to his other genre-branches, and thus I'm biased against King on this 740 page book that spent 500 pages setting up the actual "book" itself.
I apologise, Mr. King, for such a harsh critique. I commend the interesting take on a time-travel story, quite a classic in the genre of sci-fi, and bringing it to its unique selling factor: Jake Epping himself. If it were not for the main character's 'I'm just a simple man here to kill the president's assassin' persona, I would not be sold. But Jake is the average American male, a respected teacher, a citizen concerned with maintaining friendships with the elderly. Just off to kill Lee Harvey Oswald.
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Sexual content, Torture
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Blood, Murder
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Terminal illness, Car accident
Graphic: Physical abuse, Murder
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Car accident, Murder
Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma
Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief
Minor: Racial slurs, Antisemitism