This week for the Fiction Friday feature, I am reviewing the horror novel, Desperation by Stephen King. This book was published in September 1996 by Viking and has a page count of 704 pages. The audiobook is read by Stephen King and is 21 hours & 15 minutes in length. The following overview is provided from the B&N page: For all intents and purposes, police officer Collie Entragian, chief law enforcement for the small mining town of Desperation, Nevada, appears to be completely insane. He’s taken to stopping vehicles along the desolate Interstate 50 and abducting unwary travelers with various unusual ploys. There’s something very wrong here in Desperation…and Officer Entragian is only at the surface of it. The secrets embedded in Desperation’s landscape, and the horrifying evil that infects the town like some viral hot zone, are both awesome and terrifying. But one of Entragian’s victims, young David Carver, seems to know—and it scares him nearly to death to realize this truth—that the forces being summoned to combat this frightful, maniacal aberration are equal and opposite intensity…
I liked this novel, but it was not as dark as the works of King that I love. I recommend this book to those who want to experience a milder King work. This work has a lot of repeated themes from other works of his. The story is character-driven which I love. It allows me to become more emotionally attached to the characters. Which is always dangerous in a King novel as he will use that against you.
I give this book 3 out of 5 stars.
Tomorrow for the Missing Person Saturday feature, I am highlighting the missing person’s case of Daquan Terrell Williams. Next week for the Fiction Friday feature, I am reviewing the young adult fiction novel, Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney Stevens. Until then keep reading on; Nerd out!
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