hud1986 's review for:

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

3.0

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Though not horrible, not one of my favorite King books. It started off like another Mr. Harrigan’s Phone and then took a long time being that — being setup — before shifting gears completely and finally becoming the actual “fairy tale”. By then I was ready for it to into high gear and become a story full of various adventures in this new world, and it was set up to be that, but instead one goal was quickly achieved and then it ground to a halt and became a meaty chunk of not-lot-of-variety-while-we’re-stuck-in-one-place (and a-whole-helluva-lot of King writing Charlie writing “that’s not what he said but that’s what I heard” — man alive, did that get old!) before a climax that had some Lovecraftian elements, which I appreciated, but was ultimately underwhelming. Fairy tales are supposed to be shorter, whimsical little moral-of-the-story pieces, but this was just too long-winded; it overstayed it’s welcome and could have easily had some fat trimmed.