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Needful Things
by Stephen King
Castle Rock is like any other small town, but it's about to be taken over. Leland Gaunt has arrived with his mysterious store "Needful Things" and he'll pride his customers anything they think they need but for a price.
King has done it again with his of the telling a story about small town America and its deep dark secrets. The story starts out slow, introducing you to the characters and telling you about their lives and relationships. It escalates steadily as Gaunt destroys this town piece by piece adding to the intensity and desire to know what will happen to these characters. One of my favorite things about King's writing is character development as he tells you every little thing about his characters, so you'll have strong feelings about them. He wants you to know them completely and that helps to understand them whether you agree with their actions or not. I hated a lot of the characters but I also loved a lot characters too. They're relatable even in a small way, especially with the desires and fears Gaunt feeds off of. Gaunt is one of King's supernatural villains and he is unsettling. He knows how to charm you, but he also has a scariness to him. Those are my favorite kind of villains. The ones who can charm you, but there's a dark, underlying nature to me. There's also something special about this happening in small town. It's creepiness is that though on the surface it seems like this would be a safe space it takes one spark to set off someone and make things unsafe. Like a lot of his novels, Needful Things can be slow at times but it picks up the pace too.
King has done it again with his of the telling a story about small town America and its deep dark secrets. The story starts out slow, introducing you to the characters and telling you about their lives and relationships. It escalates steadily as Gaunt destroys this town piece by piece adding to the intensity and desire to know what will happen to these characters. One of my favorite things about King's writing is character development as he tells you every little thing about his characters, so you'll have strong feelings about them. He wants you to know them completely and that helps to understand them whether you agree with their actions or not. I hated a lot of the characters but I also loved a lot characters too. They're relatable even in a small way, especially with the desires and fears Gaunt feeds off of. Gaunt is one of King's supernatural villains and he is unsettling. He knows how to charm you, but he also has a scariness to him. Those are my favorite kind of villains. The ones who can charm you, but there's a dark, underlying nature to me. There's also something special about this happening in small town. It's creepiness is that though on the surface it seems like this would be a safe space it takes one spark to set off someone and make things unsafe. Like a lot of his novels, Needful Things can be slow at times but it picks up the pace too.