A review by jillmarlo
Elevation by Stephen King

dark funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

 The story of a guy who slowly loses weight without losing mass because gravity stops working on him. Substory is that there is a lesbian couple that have moved into town and everyone apparently hates them because they refer to each other as wives and that’s not ok in a rural town in Maine in 2018. And the guy spends all of his time trying to be friends with them and trying to be a ‘woke’ dude, but also comments on their physical appearance way too much for it to not be creepy. Anyways it’s supposed to be a feel good story at the end of the day which is so unlike Stephen King. He must have written this book in like 10 minutes as a warm up, because it seems so tonally different from a lot of his other stuff. I read it. And that’s all I can really say about it. I read the whole thing in a single plane ride. I’ll forget about it and probably not feel bad about it when I look back.