772 reviews for:

Dreamcatcher

Stephen King

3.35 AVERAGE

slow-paced
adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes

Wow, I liked this one way less on a reread.

The whole group of characters is fine, and the plot is interesting, but the military part just annoyed me. The 'in the dreamcatcher'-bits and the stuff with Mr Grey were so much more interesting than the whole nuts military leader bit. I enjoyed the 'what makes a human human'-question quite a bit. Shame the military plotline drags this book down for me as much as it does.
adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

King was on hardcore drugs when he wrote this and it shows but still quite a good book. It felt a little too drawn out for me but that may have been because of the confusing plot.

It all kinda makes sense by the end but a more thorough explanation of phenomena that occurred could’ve tied the book together better.
dark emotional tense medium-paced
adventurous dark emotional funny tense
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Sorry folks this is a DNF. Can't remember the last time I did that to a Stephen King, maybe The Tommyknockers. Might revisit it another time but for now, it's a no.