The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.

This book is the second book in the “Bill Hodges” series written of course by Stephen King. 

To be honest after watching the “Mr. Mercedes” tv show, I decided to reading this book series as well because the show is based of on this book series.

A part of me really liked the plot in this one because at times it gave me “misery” vibes, even thou it is very far away from the iconic “misery” book. 

However the plot itself has its ups and downs, but the downs in my opinion are much more frequent than its ups. It started very good, but the further and further it continues the less and less fun I was having with this book. 

The plot had been boring and uninteresting at times, but the moments it was actually interesting, there was very very interesting. And after finishing this book I needed to take one day to think about this book before I sat down to review this book. Thats because I was very mixed about this book. Because a part of me liked this book and the second part of me didn’t like this book.

This book has multiple perspectives it follows, so it was kind of hard to keep track of everything which was happening. In this perspective we follow the perspectives of Bill, Holly, Morris and Pete. Of course if you don’t know Bill and Holly are the private detectives, Morris is the bad guy and Pete is the kid who done something which he shouldn’t and got in trouble for it.

I personally loved Bill Hodges, Jerome and Holly Gibny as characters but when it comes to the rest of characters . Bill, Jerome and Holly were very good character even thou this book doesn’t focus on them so much as I would want it to. I personally would want this book to tell the plot from solely their perspectives which would make this book so much better. And skip the storytelling from Pete’s and Morrie’s perspectives, which for me personally was at times uninteresting and boring.  And it pretty much took the wind out if it in my opinion.

The characters (expect of Bill, Jerome and Holly) were in my opinion very flat and for the most part uninteresting. And I just couldn’t bring myself to care about them, because I just couldn’t ,are myself like them, or relegate to them in anyway.

Don’t get me wrong, this book isn’t all bad, you will be entertained while you read it because the plot has a unique way of telling a basic plot line. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5