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Revival by Stephen King
4.0

I just love a Stephen king book. It’s pretty amazing that half the book just goes into detail about a family and their day to day lives. Moving into some dark times for the youngest as he looses the plot a bit.

You get completely drawn in any it only near the middle that you go oh no. Something is wrong here.

Only along could hold you for half a book before starting to steadily unnerve you. Our ‘bad guy’ in this instance is what seems to be a mad scientist who you actually do feel for at certain points because of a tragedy near the beginning of the book. He’s got lots of layers and it’s certainly shows of the one track obsessive mind as being incredibly creepy.

And the ending is.... bonkers. At first I thought this had jumped the shark but then I really liked it. I’d not thought about that before as an end to things. Really horrible and upsetting.

This is a book about religion I think, but turned up to 11 and gone wrong. Don’t read this book if you are really ill. This is not the book for you.

I swear there is a cheeky little Dan Brown knock near the end which made me very happy. Nice one mr King.