davehershey 's review for:

Blaze by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

4.0

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

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Stephen King - or should we say Richard Bachman - is channeling Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men here. Blaze is a bad guy, but also a sympathetic figure. Overall, perhaps the best of the Bachman books, though it feels different than the 70s-80s Bachman books.