Tag: Horror Books Review

In Derry, Maine, four young boys once stood together and did a brave thing. Something that changed them in ways they hardly understand. A quarter of a century later, the boys are men who have gone their separate ways. Though they still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time is different. This time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky.

Here we are again talking about book written By Stephen King which didn’t really work for me. To be very honest Stephen King books are either hit or miss for me. 

The book is way too long than it needed to be. Because there are a lot of moments which drag for far too long which really makes this boring to be on the boring side of things. 

This book is all over the place in my opinion because its confusing and jumbled. Because it changes perspective between the 4 main characters and you just don’t know where the perspective will change because it happens out of nowhere and you need to put it together who’s perspective are you following at any given moment.

The only good thing about this book is the characters which are amazing. And which is the only reason why I gave this a 2 star rating rather one a 1 star rating. I loved the characters in this book because they have a lot of depth to them and have a lot of strength to them. Which pretty much is the skill which Stephen King posses. 

This book talks about childhood friendships evolving into adulthood friendships and how it changes. I liked the meaning behind this book but the whole book isn’t as good as I wanted to.

The plot in this book for the most part is on the boring side but it has some very good moments here and there throughout the book. As I said above the plot tends to drag for far too long at times and describes things for pages without it going anywhere which really made me consider DNF-ing this book but I was able to finish the entire book.

The ending in this book was okay but it wasn’t something which would be satisfying for reading over 600 page long book. But at the same time the books build onto the big ending of this book which really didn’t happen.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

Under the Dome is the story of the small town of Chester’s Mill, Maine which is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one can get in and no one can get out. When food, electricity and water run short, the normal rules of society are changed. A new and more sinister social order develops, Dale Barbara, a young Iraq veteran, teams up with a handful of intrepid citizens to fight against the corruption that is sweeping through the town and to try to discover the source of the Dome before it is too late.

I gotta say that I had quite a few expectations for this book since its a Stephen King book. But this book didn’t live up to my expectations.

The plot in this book isn’t as much “horror” as it is “fantasy”, of course there are some pretty violent moments like a female getting raped, murder, raids etc. But to me it feels more like a dark fantasy rather than horror.

The plot had a very interesting premise but the way it was presented as and written made me bored for almost the entire read of this book. But there were some good moments here and there in this book which I liked a lot, but for the most part I was just thinking when I will be done with this book.

The ending in this book wasn’t the greatest I’ve seen by Stephen King, at first the ending is okay but the more you think about it the more lame the ending seems. Or it just could be me who found the ending in this book to be lame. 

The beginning of this book was very good and it really quickly got me interested in the plot and what will happen next. But the more I read of this book the more and more disappointed I got and the more my dislike began to grow for this book.

There was a lot of action in this book, a lot of things happening and because of this I gave this book few extra points for this. But for the most part all action ending pretty quickly. And there were some things happening which really could be the whole chapter but Stephen King have forced it to be just couple of pages long. Which really annoyed me.

The characters here weren’t the greatest, I found them to be annoying and if I met them in real life and had a short conversation with them I would bit the shit out of them because there were so annoying. At the same time the characters in this book seemed to not be thinking but rather have 5 years old who would get angry if they weren’t allowed to do what they wanted to do.

To be very honest with you, this book was way too long than it needed to be. Because you could easily delete the half of this book and it would have been better than it is with the full 1000+ pages we get in this book.

There are some moments in this book which drag for far too long, and at times because of these moments I wanted to just DNF this book. 

The writing style here was very good, you could easily tell that it was written by the master of horror himself. The writing style was very interesting and enjoyable. And in a way it made this book so much better than it would have been if it had writing style Which really made me give this book some extra points.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, and the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place. The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied, or is she a demon who must be slain?

Ive heard a lot of good things about this book, but after reading it I have to say that it didn’t live up to my expectations for it. And I don’t know how this book was the best horror book of 2017 on Goodreads, because it isn’t even close to being a horror book but rather a fantasy book in my opinion.

The plot in this book was very uninteresting for me personally and I just had a very hard time trying to finish this book and not DNF it after reading 15% of it. Because I found it very boring and there wasn’t anything slightly interesting which took place in this book. 

The characters here were so very bad, like they almost didn’t feel like characters even partly created by Stephen King, which really pissed me off because this book has to be the book I dislike the most (so far) coming from Stephen King.

All of the characters in this book are very shallow, boring and have no personality which makes them blend into each other and makes them hard to tell apart from the rest of the trashy characters in this book. 

The characters in this book are very stereotypical, which really made me laugh at some moments during the process of reading this book.

The characters here really made me realize that all the newer works from Stephen King I’ve read after like the 2000 just doesn’t do the same thing to me as the OG Stephen King books. And it made me think more and more about that Stephen King might be one of those authors who gets worse and worse as a storyteller with more books published.

The writing style in this book was something I didn’t expecting to come from the master of horror himself. I get that this book was written by Stephen and Owen King, two different persons. The writing style was consistent and didn’t change itself depending who wrote what but still it was very bad and trashy even. 

The writing style actually made the entire experience of reading this book worse for me because the entire time I was reading this book I was thinking “this book wasn’t written by Stephen King”. This is because the writing style is so different in this book from all of the rest Stephen King’s books even those once I didn’t like and commented on that the writing style in them were bad.  But the writing style in this book hits a new low for Stephen King in my opinion.

Another thing which made me annoyed while reading this book was the dialogues in this book, which sometimes would get ridiculously bad.

The last thing about this book which annoyed me here was that this book was way too long than it needed to be. This book is over 700 pages long (depending on what version of this book you get) and very easily it could have been cut in half and do much better job than it did with over 700 pages

However the premise which this book has is good and for sure very unique which I haven’t come across of yet, but just the way it is presented to us mixed with very bad characters and bad writing style just makes it a good book to start a fire with rather than actually reading it.

The fact that this book was cowritten by Stephen King’s son, Owen King, really made me so uninterested in other writing stuff by Owen King which I don’t think I’m gonna be getting into any time soon.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

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