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Gerald's Game
by Stephen King
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Avoid if you have any minor trigger around s*xual abuse/assault
King's incredible character writing compelled me to finish this, but this was a pretty graphic lingering on sexual abuse that I had a deeply (intentionally by him) unpleasant time reading (it's sympathetic in it's depiction but it's also very intense). I think this would've worked well as a short story, but the story hasn't get enough to it to be dragged out over 390 pages, and leads to just the deep despair as I read it as she gives herself therapy on the two sexual assaults she experienced.
The ending is frustratingly blunt and misreading-proof too...
King's incredible character writing compelled me to finish this, but this was a pretty graphic lingering on sexual abuse that I had a deeply (intentionally by him) unpleasant time reading (it's sympathetic in it's depiction but it's also very intense). I think this would've worked well as a short story, but the story hasn't get enough to it to be dragged out over 390 pages, and leads to just the deep despair as I read it as she gives herself therapy on the two sexual assaults she experienced.
The ending is frustratingly blunt and misreading-proof too...
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence