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Staden som Försvann by Stephen King

67 reviews

ryankaybee's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Blood, Death, Medical content, and Murder

baudi_moovan's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Stalking, Violence, Bullying, Child death, Suicide, Gore, Alcoholism, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Murder, Animal cruelty, Death, and Domestic abuse

milorogers's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Death, Sexual harassment, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, and Violence

gloombee's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

Classic King - a good simple spooky book. Had a lot of fun imagery - just didn't stand out as much as some of King's other works. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Car accident and Grief

Minor: Medical content

jaedia's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

 Took much too long to get going though King's writing has a way of making nothing seem readable. There were pages that simply detailed what different families were having for dinner. While I can respect this was to effectively show the slow death of the town, some of it was just boring. Also would be remiss not to mention the sheer amount of homophobic slurs in the book. And this was clearly written when King had a very bleak outlook of the world.

That all said, I did enjoy reading it. The writing was enjoyable, the story compelling, and the dread creeping. A nice dark vampire horror story of a town's slow, sleepy, bloodcurdling death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Classism, Transphobia, Suicide, Sexism, Rape, Physical abuse, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Homophobia, Grief, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

voodoomary's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

maddycumerlato's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I started this book knowing that for many, it was considered one of King’s scariest novels to date. It definitely delivered in that respect. Never have I felt so unsettled and afraid for fictional people before.

Ben Mears and Mark Petrie (and Matt Burke, Susan Norton, Eva Miller, Weasel Craig, Matt Ryerson, among others who fell victim to ‘Salem’s Lot) will forever have my heart and hopes for safety in their fictitious universe… as crazy as that sounds.

Whenever I open a Stephen King novel, I know I can expect amazing worldbuilding, amazing characters, and amazing plot movement. Salem’s Lot gave me all three of these with no giant flaws in the way of me enjoying the HELL out of this book

(even as a person who just can’t get behind stories about vampires… I’ve tried. Not usually my thing)

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My 5 star read for this Halloween. Truly chilling, just as you’d expect it to be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, and Violence

Minor: Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Infidelity, Rape, and Sexual assault

finn_vibing's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Homophobia

mojavetent's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Car accident, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Cursing

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

pescemariana's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.75

Nice book. I love the last chapter. It's kind of a slow burn so the beginning can get pretty boring. I didn't really like the characters, except maybe the priest and the vampire; they are the most interesting ones and they're interaction was pretty cool (maybe the coolest part of the book). It's worth the read. Great story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Violence

Minor: Sexism, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Suicide, Medical content, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Alcohol, and Adult/minor relationship