Reviews - Four Past Midnight

711 reviews for:

Four Past Midnight

Stephen King

3.8 AVERAGE

engstromaxel's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Shooting stars only.

bethanyangharads's review against another edition

4.0

This book contains four individual stories, with the only link between them being that they were written by Stephen King.
Book 1 - The Langoliers - A story of an airplane full of people who's flight goes through a time rip which transports them to the past. In this time zone they are threatened by creatures called the Langoliers, who consume everything they pass over and transform space into nothingness.
Book 2 - Secret Window, Secret Garden - Author, Morton Rainey gets confronted by a mysterious man who claims Rainey has plagiarised his story. This mysterious man is willing to use violence and no-one else can see him.
Book 3 - The Library Policeman - Sam borrows two books from the library and doesn't return them, then all sorts of hell breaks loose. Library Policeman, a creature who feeds on fear, and a memory forgotten but required to save them all.
Book 4 - The Sun Dog - Kev gets a polaroid camera for his 15th birthday. All is well and good until he discovers that the camera only takes pictures of a dog which wants to kill him... It's hard to explain, just read it.

This bad boy took me 14 days to read all 930 pages. I probably could have finished sooner though if I hadn't gone on holiday and gotten side-tracked with other stuff. Each one was gripping in its own way and thoroughly enjoyable. My one critique is that they didn't scare me as such, so I'm not sure if it should be seen as a strong horror? I found myself reading them more like a mystery-thriller, attempting to figure things out before events were revealed.

midnightavalanche's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

mary_haeb's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

na0mi8's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

aellis0421's review against another edition

4.0

I really enjoyed these four short stories by the master of storytelling. I've read an awful lot of books in my time, and no one can spin a yarn like this man can. It's great. He continues to be one of my top 5 faves.
"The Langoliers" was the first story and it really kept me on the edge of my seat. "Secret Window, Secret Garden" had an awesome twist ending, "The Library Police" was a very entertaining and quite horrifying story, and "The Sun Dog" was also downright scary. Definitely worth the 744 pages!!!