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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
3.5 stars
I really, really enjoy Stephen King’s writing style! The beginning of this story is really intriguing and it really pulls you in straight away. While the story wasn’t particularly mindblowing overall, I had a really great reading experience and I’m super excited to see how they adapt the film which is coming out later this year! Definitely pick this one up if you need something little in between other books, it is worth it!
I really, really enjoy Stephen King’s writing style! The beginning of this story is really intriguing and it really pulls you in straight away. While the story wasn’t particularly mindblowing overall, I had a really great reading experience and I’m super excited to see how they adapt the film which is coming out later this year! Definitely pick this one up if you need something little in between other books, it is worth it!
So well written it actually aggravated my Cleithrophobia. Not for the faint of hearts. Can not wait to see the movie now.
It was so disgusting omg I did not expect the ending to be like that. this book made me realize that maybe short stories aren't my thing bc I didn't really enjoy how the book was written nor did I enjoy the plot.
Two siblings on a road trip detour into the overgrown grass at the side of the road when they hear a young boy crying for help.
I went into this novella by King and his son with high hopes. I adore the novel that King wrote with his other son, Owen King, and it certainly seems that working with his boys brings out the best in all of them. At only 62 pages, though, it would have to hit the ground running.
And I felt it faltered. The relationship between the siblings and their parents reaction to it seemed clichéd and a little creepy (in a borderline-incestous way, not in a there may be a monster in the closet way.) The reason for the road trip was dated – maybe something that happened when King was young, but something I find a hard time imagining happening now. The siblings struggles in the grass felt repetitive.
AND THEN. Something happens. Something that I will not tell you. Something that is more implied than really seen, but it is so viscerally horrifying that it hung around in my brain for days and days.
So I mean. Do I recommend this to horror fans? Yes… and also NO. lol
I went into this novella by King and his son with high hopes. I adore the novel that King wrote with his other son, Owen King, and it certainly seems that working with his boys brings out the best in all of them. At only 62 pages, though, it would have to hit the ground running.
And I felt it faltered. The relationship between the siblings and their parents reaction to it seemed clichéd and a little creepy (in a borderline-incestous way, not in a there may be a monster in the closet way.) The reason for the road trip was dated – maybe something that happened when King was young, but something I find a hard time imagining happening now. The siblings struggles in the grass felt repetitive.
AND THEN. Something happens. Something that I will not tell you. Something that is more implied than really seen, but it is so viscerally horrifying that it hung around in my brain for days and days.
So I mean. Do I recommend this to horror fans? Yes… and also NO. lol
**3.5**
Such a weird little short story, but what else is to be expected from Stephen King and Joe Hill? This was a really messed up, but intriguing read that takes place in the tall grass off of a highway in Kansas. I live in Kansas and can say for sure now, that I will never go into the tall grass never ever ever, no matter damn what.
Such a weird little short story, but what else is to be expected from Stephen King and Joe Hill? This was a really messed up, but intriguing read that takes place in the tall grass off of a highway in Kansas. I live in Kansas and can say for sure now, that I will never go into the tall grass never ever ever, no matter damn what.
dark
4 stars
This was a good quick story to read. Wish it had been a bit longer to know what actually made the grass the way it was.
This was a good quick story to read. Wish it had been a bit longer to know what actually made the grass the way it was.
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Pregnancy
Moderate: Animal death, Cannibalism
2.5-3ish. An interesting short read that definitely has the darkness and twisted plot pieces that King is known for. But not quite what I expected. However the fact that the storyline was packed into a mere 67 pages is amazing.