Tag: Horror Books Review

When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son-and now an idyllic home. As a family, they’ve got it all…right down to the friendly car. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth-more terrifying than death itself-and hideously more powerful. The Creeds are going to learn that sometimes dead is better.

The characters are just the amazing nothing more and nothing less. They are good described, they are different from each other and they feel again as real characters.

The story is completely unique and brilliant. I personally didn’t see anything even close to the plot of this book. This book makes you addicted to it and you can’t stop reading it, and you get so much into the story that you can read this book in 2 days.

I need to give you a warning because this book involves child deaths so if you get triggered by this than maybe don’t pick up this book.

The last 25 % of the book keeps you on the edge of the thing which you are sitting on, and your heart will go on a marathon run.

The vibe of this book is interesting, creepy, exiting and shocking. This book is defiantly super dark because it involves death. And it may fuck you up a little bit.

The writing style is very good. It goes very deep and the way how the whole book is written is just through the roof. The way how emotions are described in this book are on very high level.

This book deserves to be overhyped because it is brilliant. And you should have high expectations for this book if you haven’t read it.

The origin of the pet cemetery in this book, and why does something happening in this book are very good explained.

This book involves some hardcore death scenes so here is your warning.

I give this book 5 / 5

Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote…and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.

One of the classic in the horror field now on days. This book is a typical haunted house story which a lot of things go wrong in. However, this whole book have to it an very fun old timey tone to it.

The characters are again very well done. The descriptions and the tone to them are just through the roof. It feels like every character have its own soul in this book and it also feels like every one of these characters in this book are different from each other but at the same time alike at the same time. The characters are just wow and they feel like real people and just fictional characters in a Stephen King book.

The characters are so well done that you cant just don’t like them. The relationship between the characters was also incredible. You can feel the dynamic in all relationships and you can relate to both the relationships and the characters in this book.

The fact that it takes Jack so long time to turn into the psycho who wants to murder his family is amazing. It would have ruin this book if he had turned to the insane psychopath over night.

The thing with this book is the huge involvement of hallucinations ish in this book. Who doesn’t love a doze of hallucinations in books and movies?

In the end it isn’t a great horror story because its not that scary as people claim it is. But the story and overall everything in this book are an amazing piece of art.

Danny is sort of a main character and a lot of this book is written from his perspective. And here is the thing. Everything which happens when you are a child are sort of much scarier than it actually is. However there are times when Danny feels like a complete pain in the ass.

The point that there are very few characters in this book, makes it even more fun to read it. Because you don’t have to remember every character. And as we all know there is much better with having few characters but good characters than a lots of shitty characters who are poorly done. There is around 15 characters in this book,

In the end this book isn’t that scary, for the most part this book about family drama and how someone can go insane if they are isolated.

As someone who had read this book, I can tell you that this book is way overhyped. This book is not that scary and it is not that good as everyone is saying that it is. Of course it is a MUST READ, but let’s not get crazy. This book shows that Stephen King is one of the greatest authors of all times.

There are couple of boring and annoying parts in this book. But for the most part they are survivable. There are parts of this book which could have been cut out because they pretty much put anything to the story of this book.

The writing style itself is on point with Stephen King. Which means that it is advanced and good. It feels like every word was specially chosen to be there.

I give this book 3 / 5

It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.

There are parts of this book which are creepy. It was suspenseful and interesting. Almost throughout the book you will have the sense of dread. And the thing that there is some scary parts in it makes it even more interesting to read this book. If you are someone like me who are afraid of clowns this book will be even scarier for you.

This book is one of the classic horror books now on days which you just need to read.

The characters in this book, is probably the best characters I’ve ever read about (by far). We have 7 main characters which are Bill, Ben, Mike, Stan, Eddie, Richie and Beverly. There are also plenty of side characters. The descriptions of them are brilliant. And each and every one of them are unique in their own way. They are different from each other but still they have things in common. Everyone of them are bullied / abused either in school or at home.

For the most part all characters are very relatable. And i beat that everyone can relate themselves to at least one of the 7 main characters.

Richie are pretty much that one kid who is always cringe and awkward. He have a lot of annoying dialogues which may make you uncomfortable. because someone are so out of place.  He have a lot of embarrassing dialogs which made me at least cringe.

The story behind the 7 biggest losers in town getting together to fit the evil and powerful is just brilliant and amazing.

This book have over 1100 pages, and it would be better if it was separated into two books. Like first book about the 1957/1958 battle and the second book about the 1984/1985 battle.

There are a lot of jumping back and forward between 1957/1958 and 1984/1985. So keep that in mind.

The ending is pretty harsh. Because of the Gangbang at the end. Just be aware about the fact that Beverly fucks the rest of the members of “the loser club” in a cave when they are still kids. It is more or less a child orgy which is not the usual thing to involve in a novel.

The writing style, again Stephen King doesn’t disappoint with that. The writing style is at very high level and amazing.

The thing that Derry is short of a character of its own, makes this book even more unique. Yes Derry is a town but it is also an independent character in this book and a lot of Stephen King’s book.

Details, we get a lot of them. Details and descriptions in this book are through the roof. You will not miss any of them in this book. This book have a ton of details and descriptions.

The explanation of the villain in this book are brilliant. We get the explantation about both the background, power and creation of the villain which is very impressive.  And we learn this when Bill and the villain have a conversation at the end.

This book gives me at least sort of 1980s horror novel. It gives a tone to this book and really it makes even more impressive.

The Henry Bowers situation in this book in my opinion takes too much attention away from the main problem. Henry Bowers is basically a town bully who bullies every member of the Loser club. And it feels like he is everywhere in town.

The thing that this book over uses words like “Nigger” and “fucking homo”, doesn’t make easier. I get that 950s and 1980s weren’t the kindest times in history for gay people and black people but still come on, I don’t want to read these words 10 times on every page.

This book have also a deeper meaning to it. Which is about the magic of childhood and how kids can see things from a perspective from which adults can’t. It’s about how kids can accept things which adults can’t. But it is also about the true power of friendship and how a true friendship can survive even the worse things ever.

This book gets 3 / 5

Arnie, a nerdy high school student, and his friend Dennis notice a dilapidated 1958 Plymouth Fury being sold by an elderly man with a back brace, Roland D. LeBay, who named the car “Christine”. Despite Dennis’ reservations, Arnie buys Christine for $250. While Arnie finishes the paperwork, Dennis sits inside Christine and has a vision of the car and the surroundings as they existed when the car was new, 20 years earlier. Frightened, Dennis decides he dislikes Christine. Arnie brings Christine to a do-it-yourself garage run by Will Darnell, suspected of using the garage as a front for illicit operations. As Arnie restores the car, he stops wearing his glasses and his acne clears up, but he also becomes withdrawn, humorless and cynical. When LeBay dies, Dennis meets his younger brother, George, who reveals LeBay’s history of anger and violent behavior. George reveals that LeBay’s young daughter choked to death on a hamburger in the back seat of the car and that LeBay’s wife subsequently committed suicide in its front seat by carbon monoxide poisoning. And as the book goes on Dennis notices that the 1958 Plymouth Fury may be possessed by supernatural forces. Can you goes how it will end and how many people the car will bring to dead?

The first book review on this blog and it is already a big book, written by a big author. Before we start this review I need to say that I have sort of a weird relationship with books written by Stephen King. When I picked this book up to read it. My first thoughts about it was basically that this book will be about an evil version of Lightning Mcqueen, but of course nothing is so simple with books written by Stephen King.

When I was starting this book I was sure that I will not like this book. But after around 50 pages into this book, I began to fall more and more in love with this book. Now around 2 months after finishing this book I think that it is one of the best books written by Stephen King. This book was more or less the 5th book written by Stephen King. Because 2020 was and still is the year where I really got into books and all that. But enough about me and lets go back to the book review.

This book is one of the Stephen King classics and it is defiantly a MUST READ for any horror fan. In this book we have few characters which are incredible described and written.

The character development is very clear in this book. This book have 4 main characters which are Arnie Cunningham, Dennis Guilder, Leigh Cabot and of course Christine aka the car. All these 4 main characters are different from each other and very likable at least in my opinion. We have some side characters which are pretty much parents of these 3 teenagers, some school teachers, a detective, owner of a so-called garage, some dudes who bullies Arnie at school, the guy who sold Arnie the car and his brother. And we don’t have anyone else in this book. If you are the person who likes strong and very good described and written characters in a book you should probably give this book a shoot. It is very easy to see who is the bad guy in this book and who is the good guy. But these characters aren’t all bad and all good. Because the bad guys in this book does some good things and the good guys does some bad things. So they aren’t all bad or all good. Every character in this book (expect of one) are more or less a mix between good and bad.

I’m super glad that this book avoids the “high school drama”. Because the main characters (expect of the car) are in the high school. It was a relief that Stephen King didn’t bother to use like 50 pages on a school drama between characters. However there are some conflicts between Arnie, Dennis and some school bullies. But mostly these conflicts don’t last more than 3-4 pages. Everything which the characters does in this book felt realistic and pretty much logical.

Writing style of this book is brilliant. It almost feels like every word in this book was specially chosen by Stephen King to fit in this book. The writing style makes it really easy to get into this book and like it.

This book changes perspectives as it goes on. And I completely love that because we see stuff from point of views of multiple characters and because of that we get more stuff explained. The perspective we get the most of in this book is the point of view which Dennis have.

This book provides the slow process of Arnie being more and more obsessed with Christine. And how Christine changes him. The whole process doesn’t happen over night but rather throughout this whole book.

The ending is impressively good. In most books the endings sucks and lucky for us this books isn’t one of these books. The ending more realistic than I have expected. And the ending don’t disappoint us. Don’t expect the ending to be happy, it is rather a harsh realistic needing or at least it was for me. However it could have been used more on telling us what happened with people in this town after all these events which had happened.

This book aren’t trying to sell us some super human bull shit like “I broke my leg but I can still run”. And if you want some “Superman” type of characters pick a different book because this book doesn’t have this kind of characters.

Characters in this book can be described as rather a team work people. This book was sort of missing the aspect of explaining about Christine. Sort of why and how is Christine the way it is. And why does Christine act like it does If we go quickly back and talk about Dennis and Arnie. I need to point out that there are couple of times in this book where I felt like in the end Dennis and Arnie wasn’t best friends. But rather that Dennis was obligated to look over Arnie and take care of him when his parents or any adults were around. Because there are times where Dennis is described as the cool football player and Arnie is described as the shy nerdy guy. And whenever Arnie is bullied or trash talked by others Dennis jumps into the picture to save the day.    

                   This book gets 4 / 5