Tag: Horror Books Review

In this collection, Stephen King once again assembles a generous array of unforgettable, tantalizing tales. There are thrilling connections between these works – themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, and what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. Magnificent, eerie, and utterly compelling, these tales are a fine gift to readers everywhere.

This book is a collection of short stories written by Stephen King. Its important to say that this book includes a lot of short stories which have been published before, so there were very little new short stories in this book.

All of the short stories in this book are very uninteresting and boring. The best way to describe them is that Stephen King tried to be similar to some of his older short stories which people liked but failed a lot on this task.

The plot in those short stories were very flat, and there too short to actually understand what was happening or make us care for the characters. 

The characters in this book really surprised me here, because they were very flat, uninteresting and boring. But also the dialog between the characters were very mundane.

After every short story in this book, Stephen King adds some notes to every short story. In my opinion, these notes were very distracting because those notes would give us information we didn’t need to know and it pretty much killed the small amount of eerie vibe those short stories had.

The only place I saw this book in a store, was on the airport, and of course on that trip I forgot to take a book with me so I needed to buy one in the airport. And this book was I went with. And I truly regret spending my money on this book and my time.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world. “Four Past Midnight”: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity.

This book is a collecting of 4 short stories written by Stephen King which take place around midnight.

The name of the short stories which are in this book are The Langoliers, Secret Window, Secret Garden, The Library Policeman and The Sun Dog. I personally think that the Secret Window, Secret Garden was the best short story in this book. And it is for sure the short story in this book which I had the most fun reading.

I didn’t have a lot of expectations for this book, because I didn’t know much about it other than it contained 4 short stories written by Stephen King. And that the short stories take place either in Castle Rock or in Derry.

Those 4 short stories we get in this book are pretty different from each other but they have couple of things in come, which of course is that they take place around midnight, and they are horror short stories. 

The characters in The Langoliers and The Sun Dog weren’t my favorite, and I found them to be boring and annoying at times. Which really disappointed me because Stephen King is known fin creating amazing characters. But it didn’t happen in those 2 short stories.

When it comes to the characters in the two remaining short stories which of course are Secret Window, Secret Garden and The Library Policeman. I need to to admit that the characters are very good, and I really came to like the majority of the characters in those two short stories. But of course there were a couple of characters in those 2 short stories which I found to be annoying or boring.

The writing style in those 4 short stories which this book has is very good. The way it was written you just could tell that it was written by Stephen King. The writing style is so good that you could tell that Stephen King knew what words to use to grab your attention and interested. 

When it comes to the ending to those 4 short stories, they weren’t the best. From experience I can honestly say that Stephen King can write much better ending than what he did in those 4 short stories.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction. And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone.

To be honest I didn’t have any expectations for this book, because I didn’t know a lot about it before going into it.

The plot in this book is for sure a unique one. The plot in this book is cellphones turning human into a terminators / zombie of sorts. It had good premise but the way the plot was turning into, wasn’t just quite for me.

This book starts with a huge bang. And for that I gave this book some extra points for.

However its important to say that this book is far away from being my favourite Stephen king book. But as a die hard fan of his, I needed to read this one.

I had some thoughts about DNF-ing this book after reading around 60% of it because I wasn’t quite liking this book and I was becoming very bored. But I’ve struggled through it and I was able to finish it. But my initial opinions and thoughts about this book didn’t change after finishing this book.

The character in this book were very weird because they were good characters but at the same time they weren’t. Which really made me unsure what to say about them in this review which is the reason why I didn’t write this review before 3 weeks after finishing this book.

The characters here, had some good moments here and there but for the most part they were pretty flat and boring. And I found myself not caring about them at all. 

The writing style here was good, which made me give this book some extra point. However the writing style wasn’t on the same level with Stephen king’s other work. Which really made me disappointed in this book.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

A game. A husband-and-wife game. Gerald’s Game. But this time Jessie didn’t want to play. Lying there, spreadeagled and handcuffed to the bedstead while he’d loomed and drooled over her, she’d felt angry and humiliated. So she’d kicked out hard. Aimed to hit him where it hurt. And now he was dead – a coronary – on the floor. Leaving Jessie alone and helpless in a lakeside holiday cabin. Miles from nowhere. No-one to hear her screams.

In my opinion this books isn’t one of the best Stephen King’s books. Don’t get me wrong, this book is interesting but as a die-hard fan of Stephen King I was expecting something different.

This book had some interesting moments here and there, but for the most part I found myself not caring about it.

After I finished reading this book I started thinking that we could easily delete 40% of this book and it would somehow become better. Because most of this book isn’t that interesting and at times it seems like to drags for far too long.

The most interesting part of this book was the very end. Which really made me gives this book a higher rating than I first wanted to. There was something very satisfying about the ending which really made me happy that I didn’t give up on this book.

The plot in this book is for sure very unique. When I read the summary of this book I wasn’t sure if I wanted to read this book because it seemed so boring and flat to me. But after having read this book I am actually happy that I read it.

The plot contains a married couple going to a secluded house to have a lot of kinky sex, but it doesn’t go far because the husband dies after handcuffing his wife to the bed. Pretty bad timing I would say. But there was something about the whole situation which the wife have gaunt herself in which made me intrigued and made me want to read to the end to see what will happen with her.

The characters in this book are very very good. But this fact doesn’t surprise me because it was written by Stephen King. And that guy is the mastermind of writing incredible character even if the plot isn’t that good.

The writing style here was of course very good, because it was written by Stephen King. For me the writing style made this book better for me. Because it was like Stephen King knew what words to use here to grab my attention.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms.

This review its gonna be a very unpopular review. Because this book gets a lot of good reviews from people who have read it, and I just didn’t like it at all. This book is the longest Stephen King book at the time of writing this review, and well I was excepting something more from this book.

This book took me over 3 months to read, because I just couldn’t keep my focus straight while reading this book because I was so uninterested in this book.

In my opinion this book lacks details, which really makes it or breaks it when it comes to fiction about the fall of civilisation.  

This book really started out strong but quickly it went downhill for me personally which really disappointed me. Because I was really having fun and enjoying this book in the beginning.

All of the characters in this book were very boring and uninteresting for me personally. Which really hurts to say it about a Stephen King book, because he normally writes so amazing amazing characters which of course didn’t happen in this book. 

The plot in this book is to be honest all over the place, because it follows multiple characters and most of the time I had a hard time being onboard with what was happening in this book.

This book had some good moments here and there, but it were really rare and they were surrounded by moments which really were shit in my opinion. 

The ending in this book was probably the most disappointing thing about this book. Because this whole book was building the atmosphere for this huge ending which turned out to be uninteresting and not worth 1150 pages of build up to it.

I Give This Book 1 / 5