jpeavler 's review for:

Black House by Stephen King

4.0

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At first I was torn, because it was nothing like its predecessor. Gone was the epic fantasy adventure story and in its place was a murder mystery. It was a slow slog through the first hundred pages or so as I tried to wrap my mind around the shift in tone and setting, but once

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Ty was taken

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, I was hooked.

I actually grew to love the fact that it was not like The Talisman, that it stood on its own as a novel, while at the same time giving homage to its antecedent (not sure if that word quite works in this sense, but I did not want to use predecessor again).

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One thing I wonder is how much of a role did Peter Straub have in writing this novel. The call backs, references, and how much it interrelates to The Dark Tower give it a 100% feel of being all Stephen King.

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