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The Institute by Stephen King

48 reviews

ilmariel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Torture, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Torture, Grief, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

mo_bees's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Medical trauma, Confinement, Child death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Medical content

taubenfrau's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Kidnapping, Trafficking, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

koberreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

 

 

Stephen King... You son of a gun. 

King got me good damn it. Got me so good 

 

Short review: 

(This is a good novel about children, although mentions sex and short scenes of adults about to do sex, no actual sex happens even the underage sex. I prefer horror/adventure novels of his without the abrupt, almost unbearably disturbing sex. So read this if you don't like those scenes as well.) 

 

The book description says it all but I don't think all the mystery and unexpectedness is gone just because you read it. I don't know truly shit what's gonna happen here while I read it. And each character especially the children has unique voices of their own. It amazes me how he can create characters that are literally gaps away from his actual age. 

 

Read it and get enriched by it 

 

 

Long review: 

To be frank, this is the first novel I read by Stephen King but the work that I read him first was his memoir “On Writing” and I loved it and loved Stephen King for writing such, I felt he is the most humane unexpectedly one of them, not only creative but loving and hardworking man, I ever read about (I did expect much because I thought he is pretty odd or even evil to write about “darkness” of human nature and I thought he just writes to sell “fear”. It is more than that 

 

This novel though is not horror but brings more of what Stephen King is. A person who writes not just to sell stuff, get money or get famous but rather to enrich one life and to see things from a different perspective through the characters 

 

 

I like the last part. Even though it explains some unexpected concepts.. it still rings true.. no one can predict the future exactly or know that it will happen with certainty... there are too many variables. But it does make me question still if the precog can predict the future. Made me feel like Luke, knows the certainty of the math but still doubts himself regardless. Stephen King is smarter than he has ever shown himself in public or his writings. And yes I am too attached to Kalisha and I am not even a white boy who has an attraction to the opposite skin colour. I am Asian and in my eyes Kailsha is both awesome, brave, beautiful and so precious. I wished she chose Luke.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

pkc's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I finished this in conjunction with the audiobook, reading the last 200+ pages in my physical copy and…King remains one of my favourite authors BUT this just wasn’t it for me. It felt a bit like he’d bitten off more than he could chew and the end was rushed with a resolution that could be described as shaky at best. I rated it as highly as I did because the final set piece was epic. It either needed to be expanded or drastically cut back. I can’t decide which. I will say though. The authors note at the end of my copy brought a wee tear to my eye.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide, Confinement, Cursing, Self harm, Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

nicole_cob_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Gaslighting, Grief, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Slavery

book_s1ut's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Death, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Violence, Trafficking, Bullying, Child death, Torture, Classism, Alcohol, Abandonment, Death of parent, and Confinement

farrington's review against another edition

dark sad fast-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Child death, Confinement, and Physical abuse

thebookesquire's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful sad tense fast-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? No

4.25

8.75/10. This pulled me in from the very first chapter.  I listened to it on audiobook and for three days I could do nothing else but listen to it.  The characters are distinctive and endearing. They carve themselves right into your little heart and suddenly you can’t quite breathe when something bad happens to them in the book. The story is incredible, it keeps you guessing and leaves you at the absolute edge of your seat. It’s books like this that define why Stephen King is such a formative writer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Torture, Physical abuse, and Child death

horrorhomebodies's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Stephen King’s ability to write a simple sentence with a plethora of meaning is absolutely brilliant. I gave 4.25 stars because the ending was a bit lackluster for my taste, but still warmed my heart enough to earn the .25 of the rating. I wish there had been a bit more of an insight into the characters backstory, but overall it was an enticing read. It really made me think beyond the scope of fiction, which is a large part of why I loved The Institute. Well worth the read in my opinion!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Murder, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Torture, Death, Kidnapping, Violence, Confinement, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Cancer, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Suicide