Reviews - Hearts in Atlantis

734 reviews for:

Hearts in Atlantis

Stephen King

3.75 AVERAGE

bentobean's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

lauraabbs's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sgmlilja's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

fio22's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

mrockhold's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

bostonkatebooks's review against another edition

4.0

At first it was hard to get into this one, because I generally expect something a little more "horror" when I read Stephen King, and this was not that type of book. There was a little bit of the King style at the end of "Low Men in Yellow Coats" (the first of the five stories that make up this book), but most of the stories were just Vietnam-era-related stories about regular people with no horror elements whatsoever. But once I got going I ended up liking it a lot more than I thought I would. I actually liked "Hearts in Atlantis" - the second story - the best (I've seen a number of comments that say only "Low Men" is really any good, but I disagree). "Blind Willie" didn't do anything for me, but the rest of the book was quite good. I was just expecting something different when I started, that's all.

sapphirestars's review against another edition

5.0

Fun to reread this. Hilarious to me that they made this a movie and had to change it so much because they had to cut out all of the Dark Tower bits, of which there are a lot. I enjoyed reading it again and it is an emotional one, nice to be in the 60s. I am not as fond of the other stories as I am the main novella Long Men in Yellow Coats.