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A review by shreyas1599
The Outsider by Stephen King
4.0
This is only my second King novel, the first one being Billy Summers. I know that elaborated depictions and tangents are a feature of Stephen King's novels, but I remember praying that the end starts to make an appearance, sometime prior to when it actually made an appearance.
By the looks of it, the plot was intriguing. An individual was found guilty of brutally killing a child, with several witnesses attesting to his contact with the child around the time of the child's death. DNA and fingerprinting evidence singularly points the finger at him. But the only problem - the said perpetrator was miles away in another city (town?), attending a literary event caught on camera, and several other witnesses attesting to his presence.
Slow-burn is what I would use to describe this as it was in no conceivable way close to the pace of fast-paced novels that I'm usually accustomed to reading,
I almost never read horror novels, but felt like I had to read at least a couple of Stephen King novels, to start with the genre and to quench my thirst and move on to other pastures.
This book provided some sort of closure in the end, which I did find unnecessary. But it's a matter of opinion. I think the book should've ended as soon as the actual ending came into the picture leaving the reader to fill in whatever they feel like. But that's just my personal preference and opinion.
By the looks of it, the plot was intriguing. An individual was found guilty of brutally killing a child, with several witnesses attesting to his contact with the child around the time of the child's death. DNA and fingerprinting evidence singularly points the finger at him. But the only problem - the said perpetrator was miles away in another city (town?), attending a literary event caught on camera, and several other witnesses attesting to his presence.
Slow-burn is what I would use to describe this as it was in no conceivable way close to the pace of fast-paced novels that I'm usually accustomed to reading,
I almost never read horror novels, but felt like I had to read at least a couple of Stephen King novels, to start with the genre and to quench my thirst and move on to other pastures.
This book provided some sort of closure in the end, which I did find unnecessary. But it's a matter of opinion. I think the book should've ended as soon as the actual ending came into the picture leaving the reader to fill in whatever they feel like. But that's just my personal preference and opinion.