whimsicallymeghan 's review for:

Thinner by Stephen King

3.0

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Final thoughts: This novel was definitely fast-paced and had a good plot. It kept the reader engaged; some parts were a little longer than others and they dragged on for longer than they needed to, but for the most part this was very concise and stayed on track. The horror of it all was good, it left the reader terrified how one person could be cursed and the people around him could be affected by it. The lesson that Billy has to learn, the reader doesn’t think he really learned it because by the end, when he says he’s going to do right by his daughter and everything goes to crap, he just kind of gives up and says screw this, he’s out, too. It kinda made it feel like what was the point of everything he went through if that was how it was all going to end. This had real good set up and potential and the end was so good up until that last few sentences. If there had been like an epilogue to show Billy having to live with the choices and consequences of everything that had happened, from the accident all the way to the pie, then maybe this would have felt worth it or earned more. The reader never really connected with any of the characters; they always felt just out of reach of being actual ordinary people. Instead, the reader just saw them as two dimensional and only really cared about what happened to them and not really for them. Even the Gypsy characters lost their lustre sooner than we wanted them to. In the end, this was good, but it didn’t quite do it for this reader.