A review by koberreads
The Institute by Stephen King

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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