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dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Wow what a book. Truly an ode to Lovecraft and Shelly. The built up to the final reveals was rewarded and the reveals were just frightening. The character work in this book was just excellent. Both Jamie and his nemesis Charlie were just great great characters. There were great scenes in this from the Patsy and Morrie tragedy to The Terrible Sermon to Charlie and all his cures to the final terrible scene at the Skytop.
This was a mix of a Frankensteinian Mad Doctor with a Lovecraft twist. The end and its implications were so bleak and the imagery of that other place beyond the door is so haunting.
Also had some great lines that floored me from “Home is where they want you to stay longer” to “No death, no light, no rest”. I also really liked that there was a book akin to Lovecraft’s Necronomicon and King’s use of Lovecraft’s famous line “That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons, even death may die” was so fitting and haunting as well. While not having that many of King’s all time highs still the climax chapter was worth it. On further thought the implications and the reveals of the climax chapter are just so scary and are truly one of King’s best writing and I know, even as I read more King, will remain to me as one of King’s all time highs for me. This is a great book and has a great ending as well for those who say King cannot write a good ending. (I am pretty sure on a reread {which I will a 100% do} the rating of this book will easily rise to a 5.0)
This was a mix of a Frankensteinian Mad Doctor with a Lovecraft twist. The end and its implications were so bleak and the imagery of that other place beyond the door is so haunting.
Also had some great lines that floored me from “Home is where they want you to stay longer” to “No death, no light, no rest”. I also really liked that there was a book akin to Lovecraft’s Necronomicon and King’s use of Lovecraft’s famous line “That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons, even death may die” was so fitting and haunting as well. While not having that many of King’s all time highs still the climax chapter was worth it. On further thought the implications and the reveals of the climax chapter are just so scary and are truly one of King’s best writing and I know, even as I read more King, will remain to me as one of King’s all time highs for me. This is a great book and has a great ending as well for those who say King cannot write a good ending. (I am pretty sure on a reread {which I will a 100% do} the rating of this book will easily rise to a 5.0)