Reviews

Ojos de fuego by Stephen King

lenajean's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

poweredbycroissants's review against another edition

dark sad 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? Yes

3.0

lordsuggs's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

4.0

jazhandz's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This book essentially has four types of scenes: action, good guys, bad guys, and weird interactions between the good and bad guys. I happen to like these four scenes and think this was done decently well, although the first half was stronger and I would happily chop 70-odd pages out of the middle. It’s fine! Perfectly serviceable King book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Kidnapping, Violence, Death, Gun violence, and Addiction

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Police brutality, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Animal death

Minor: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Transphobia, and Rape

- adult/minor relationship insofar as Stephen King-typical adult men having feelings for little girls - eye horror and gore - medical experimentation - police brutality insofar as a government agency threatening civilians; it’s not the actual police but it checks a similar box imo - if you are afraid of snakes think twice about this one - King-typical racism ableism sexism etc throughout. the transphobia is only tagged bc it is, somehow, plot relevant.

kate_rates's review against another edition

I'll come back to this later. I just don't have time for it. There are other books than these 😂

tcsellman's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

ecargmura's review against another edition

3.0

It was good but it started becoming a slog to read after the halfway point. It feels as if some chapters weren't necessary and that taking them out would be less of a slugfest.

heisenburger229's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

reallly good!!! really sad tho

rip andy

charlie is a baddieeee want to read 1984 again now  but yeah it was really good unexpectedly 

rjbrown14's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.0

It's pretty slow, but its a good story. Certainly not my favorite from King tho.

blakeaustin's review against another edition

3.0

This was…fine? It’s not a bad horror book but it’s a pretty mediocre Stephen King book. It could definitely benefit from about 50 pages being eliminated, and the characters are all unusually boring for King. When the standard is Pet Sematary, The Stand, It, etc. this one just falls kind of flat.