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Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

71 reviews

foxreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Alcoholism, Addiction, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, and Death

Minor: Racial slurs, Cancer, Drug use, and Gun violence

markedwithanm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

shinysarah28's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Violence, and Death

rwelzenb's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Not even in the same universe as The Shining, but still an entertaining enough read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Addiction

ufojules's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

3.0

okay so overall I liked it better than The Shining but it definitely didn’t have the same level of suspense. I’ve read cheesy, high fae fantasy with better twists and climactic point tbh.

in Doctor Sleep’s defence, I absolutely loved Abra and the other hero characters were all pretty likeable while the antagonists were disgusting and I wanted them gone. so characters were great but the plot just wasn’t really there for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Murder, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Kidnapping, Torture, Cursing, Gun violence, and Chronic illness

Minor: Drug use, Drug abuse, Racial slurs, and Pedophilia

bookbelle5_17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Child death

blenchbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Violence, Murder, Kidnapping, and Child death

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Trafficking

lucybrett's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A really good sequel to the shining! The book gives a great insight into those who are wondering what happened to Danny after he left the Overlook and into a wider view of the shining in the world. Bare in mind it is very different to the movie.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Alcoholism

Moderate: Death and Kidnapping

nytephoenyx's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.0

You know, DOCTOR SLEEP isn't all that bad!  As far as King's horror books go, I think this is one of the better ones, along with THE SHINING.  It's always fun to see characters "all grown up" and I liked not only seeing what became of Danny Torrence, but also learning more about the Shine and his gifts, and what others like him are capable of.  Abra Stone was a great new character as well, and it's always good to see women rising up as formidable forces (good, and evil) in horror books... far too often they're still just victims. So I appreciated that!

I think that this new plot was interesting, and I'd be curious to learn more about the "True Knot" and people like them (is this in another King book?  His universe is tied so well together).  All in all a decent, spooky autumn read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Grief, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Addiction, Gun violence, and Racial slurs

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, and Terminal illness

fionac326's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Death, and Drug abuse