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erebusc 's review for:
Pet Sematary
by Stephen King
I liked this book, let just get that out of the way, but I just couldn't love it. Lot's of things this book attempts is done extremely well, the way it makes you fall for the characters, feel emotion towards them and emphasize with the level of emotional pain they go through is superb, never quite felt like that with a book, especially one this short in length.
The premise is fantastic and the thought of it itself is quite terrifying even if it seems a bit obvious with modern day pop culture references. When King really delvs into the world, the legend, the power of the Sematary it does an absolutely amazing job to capture the reader and those sections are truly great.
However as I find with most of King's work, it meanders heavily and by the half way point I am struggling to continue, strictly only getting through the wall as I know that when it gets closer to the end, it kicks back in gear.
It's eery, scary and I wish there was more of the story to really explore this thing that King created but it so heavily meandered that I was also very relieved to finally get to the end, which is why I feel justified with a three stars. A book, regardless of its strength of premise should not feel like a slog or make the reader struggle to continue on to get to more juicy sections, this is general criticism of King's work really but I felt that this book is one that particularly suffered because of it.
The premise is fantastic and the thought of it itself is quite terrifying even if it seems a bit obvious with modern day pop culture references. When King really delvs into the world, the legend, the power of the Sematary it does an absolutely amazing job to capture the reader and those sections are truly great.
However as I find with most of King's work, it meanders heavily and by the half way point I am struggling to continue, strictly only getting through the wall as I know that when it gets closer to the end, it kicks back in gear.
It's eery, scary and I wish there was more of the story to really explore this thing that King created but it so heavily meandered that I was also very relieved to finally get to the end, which is why I feel justified with a three stars. A book, regardless of its strength of premise should not feel like a slog or make the reader struggle to continue on to get to more juicy sections, this is general criticism of King's work really but I felt that this book is one that particularly suffered because of it.