kevlanb's Reviews (123)

Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

From a Buick 8

Stephen King

3.0

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara

4.0

adventurous challenging dark hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Cell

Stephen King

2.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Doctor Sleep

Stephen King

3.5

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Lisey's Story

Stephen King

2.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Some how worse than Tommyknockers

The Devil and the Dark Water

Stuart Turton

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I don’t know how an author took such an interesting plot and made it so god damn boring. Whoever compared this to Agatha Christie on a boat had never read Agatha Christie. This read more like some asked ChatGBT to write a murder mystery set on a boat solved by Scooby Doo and the gang. Its my fault for reading past the first chapter.