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A review by thecosynook
Blaze by Stephen King, Richard Bachman
1.0
Ugh this book, shockingly it was not a 5 star book. It was incredibly slow, for a 300 page book it didn't really grip me. You'd think a book about kidnapping a baby (not a spoiler it's literally discussed at the start of the book) would be packed full of tension. However in the end I just felt like I'd wasted a lot of time reading a lot of words and not a lot really happening.
I wanted a big build up to the kidnapping, I wanted things in detail with everything discussed so that I could feel involved and that the stakes were really high. However it just seemed like a "ok tonight is the night, lets go", before this the only build up we have is the guy goes baby shopping (furniture, food, nappies etc.) - not exactly the thrilling set up that I wanted
After this (spoilers) the rest of the book is essentially just our character babysitting the kid, the police making their really simple case against him and them making sure there's no way out. Nothing about this story was thrilling, you could just see where it was going to go from the start. I kept reading in the hopes that something interesting would happen - it didn't.
Overall I really wouldn't recommend this book, I wanted things to pick up but they didn't. There was nothing at all interesting, the plot goes exactly the way you expect it to go. I think if it wasn't known that it was a Stephen King book this would definitely have much lower ratings. It just wasn't a good book at all. Don't waste your time
I wanted a big build up to the kidnapping, I wanted things in detail with everything discussed so that I could feel involved and that the stakes were really high. However it just seemed like a "ok tonight is the night, lets go", before this the only build up we have is the guy goes baby shopping (furniture, food, nappies etc.) - not exactly the thrilling set up that I wanted
After this (spoilers) the rest of the book is essentially just our character babysitting the kid, the police making their really simple case against him and them making sure there's no way out. Nothing about this story was thrilling, you could just see where it was going to go from the start. I kept reading in the hopes that something interesting would happen - it didn't.
Overall I really wouldn't recommend this book, I wanted things to pick up but they didn't. There was nothing at all interesting, the plot goes exactly the way you expect it to go. I think if it wasn't known that it was a Stephen King book this would definitely have much lower ratings. It just wasn't a good book at all. Don't waste your time