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3.35 AVERAGE
3.35 AVERAGE
Admittedly not my favorite King novel. While the story was good, as are all of King's brainchilds, this one wasn't as riveting. I guess, even for King, there was too much backstory that clogged up the story's pacing. I found myself actually a bit bored reading it. This is the story of four friends, Jonesy, Henry, Beaver and Pete, who meet with an unlucky fate on their annual deer hunting/camping vacation. Aliens invade the woods where they hold their expedition and use a combination of wormlike creatures and a fungus to kill their hosts. In the process of their invasion, humans become telepatheic but the boys already have a higher-than-average-ESP and the extra telepathy proves to be the marauding alien's undoing. The pivotal link to destroying the dreamlike quality of the alien's invasion is their friend Duddits (Douglas), a child with downs syndrome who original gifted the boys with special communication abilities. While trying to rid the world of this menace, they have to deal with psychotic paramilitary officials, people already infected with the "virus" and come to grips with their own pasts. Gory and full of action, but weighed down with excessive backstory.
adventurous
dark
emotional
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
A fun and strange King book. Four friends help out a boy, “Duddits” who has Down’s Syndrome when they are freshman in high school. They become fast friends and find out that Duddits is special in lots of ways. When they are older, there is an alien invasion in Northern Maine and it comes down to these guys to help save the world.
Dreamcatcher is what happens when you mix Tommyknockers with It and just throw in a splash of John Coffey.
Dreamcatcher is what happens when you mix Tommyknockers with It and just throw in a splash of John Coffey.
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I was surprised by how boring this story was. I read more than half, but couldn't care enough to finish.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
You can find my review of this book on my blog Quiet or Loud? The Mind of a Young Lady. Just click here
slow-paced
I’m sorry but this was a very long book that amounted, for this reader at least, to a whole bunch of nothing. The book felt pretty much pointless…we have our standard King trope of a group of close knit friends from childhood with some mysterious link that makes them different than others and an otherworldly power that threatens mankind.
Unlike other King stories where this set up pulls me in…this time around I didn’t care for any of the characters or about the plot. I simply kept reading because I was too far in to quit.
Unlike other King stories where this set up pulls me in…this time around I didn’t care for any of the characters or about the plot. I simply kept reading because I was too far in to quit.