 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another Stephen King book review. I know you guys are anxious for this You've been asking in the comment section over and over and over again on other videos Sorry, it took so long, but I wanted to enjoy the book. So I hope you understand that That I want that when Stephen King's when Stephen King Publishes a book. It's an event for me. I look forward to it all year long If it's two books a year, you know twice twice a year I'm look I'm looking forward to it and I want to be able to enjoy the book like you want to be able to enjoy the book His longer books, of course, are gonna take longer. This one wasn't that long But there was a lot of stuff in here that I needed to focus on I couldn't blow through it because it Ties heavily into the Stephen King universe. I will have a Thursday theorist up next week with all the ties that I found Please don't post any spoilers or anything down there in the doobly-doo about any connections Wait for that other video to pop up before you do that. Anyways on with the review Okay, so this book follows Jamie. He is a young man who can see dead people His mother. He's his a single mother He has an uncle with early onset dementia or Alzheimer's. I can't remember which one But all that is important to the story they There's another character named Liz that at the beginning is Jamie's mother's a girlfriend and She become Liz becomes a major character in the story There who this book? But I don't know why but it bored me to death for the first about hundred pages There wasn't anything wrong with it It was fine. It really felt like a better written odd Thomas But I think it had a lot to do with I'd seen this type of character a lot before with Stephen King Because this is basically Danny Torrance all over again, but as a teenager There is a huge huge connection to the Stephen King universe And one of his best novels it comes into play. There were rumors that this might be happening As a full fledged novel like it, you know a standalone a big tome or whatever It's not if you've heard the rumors if you read the book and you've heard the rumors This is probably what they're talking about so and I know I'm being obtuse here, but I Don't want to spoil anything for you and please don't spoil anything for the people down there in the doobly-doo If you do I'll be watching and I will remove you anyways I let people enjoy things man. Let people find them for themselves So the but after once the twist not the twist We'll get to the twist in a second once the reveal of the connection comes in I started to enjoy myself more now I don't know if I enjoyed myself more because of the connection or because the book actually got better I don't know I could be a biased Stephen King fanboy here a hundred percent. I Could be I don't think I am I think it actually got better once the the Plot kicked in because before that it's just it was more it felt like There was a bunch of stuff in there like a hearts and Atlantis not low men in yellow coats Or even what at Harrigan's phone that kind of thing it felt like that too It just all felt really familiar until you know the next part which is odd because he references other books in here But once he starts doing that it feels Like something else I guess This book I I think it's the perfect length once again I'm not sure it fits with hard case crime. It's not a hard-boiled noir It is a horror story about a psychic kid His family hit the the relationships between the other people It's your basic Stephen King fair up until that point where he throws in a fastball now If you're like Dane Cobain hello, Dane It or any any other people who who get upset when Stephen King goes supernatural with a story that's you know That you don't think doesn't need it you are not going to have a good time with this book The ending in this book is absolutely wild It has a great ending a fantastic ending and a twist that I didn't see coming It's it's odd to see Stephen King write a thriller not it's not really a thriller twist Don't get me wrong, but there's a twist on who's who at at the end that I was like Oh, wow, he went full John Irving If you've read it and you've read all of John Irving's books, you know what I'm talking about But I wasn't expecting it. It was something just completely I say it dropped my jaw it may not do that for you But it did for me because I don't expect twists like this in a Stephen King book. I just don't But the ending this is one of Stephen King's best endings. I think I Would probably put it in top 10 I really love the way this one ended the visuals in this one are very striking But Stephen King is always like that the I think the best visuals have to do with Terrio Who who I read the entire time as the Ralt But it's Terrio because I listened to the audiobook also right after I got done with this That's another reason why it took me so long to do the review because I like to give you guys if I can I like to give you guys the The audiobook, you know, whether or not the audiobook is as good as the text or if it's better or whatever Also, this book is available unscribed. It was available on scribe day one. So if you have a Subscription for them definitely, you know, check it out there I'm not sure if the text the e-book is on there, but I know the audiobook is if you don't have scribe There's a link down the doobly-doo if you use that I get a free month. You get a free month. In fact, you make you two free months I don't know But use that if you want to It's it's a good service. There are some issues and some hiccups In fact, I'll probably be doing a video about that separately Why am I talking about that here because the majority of you watch the Stephen King videos? So I wanted to throw that out there that I will be doing something too. It's a fix for one of the Let's see here one of the glitches that's going on right now for scribe. Anyways back to the review My favorite part of the book just like with every Stephen King book is the characters the character development I think the characters are very very well done. They are nothing new though That's why I'm taking off a full star for this one because he he kind of went full being coons here He just kind of recycled all of his his previous stuff Even though I did enjoy the stuff that he recycled in the in the last half of the novel the connections the fan service I really enjoyed that But the beginning dragged for me. I was waiting for something to happen I didn't I didn't really care too much about the the writer subplot In fact, I I don't I don't know it. I mean it fits it works because it has a it serves a purpose It's just I didn't I didn't care too much about that one I do like that the this is a kind of a spoiler So if you want to click away now, just go ahead. I've said everything out the next thing I'm going to say is kind of a spoiler I do okay anyways spoilers in three two one. No, just kidding. Anyways, but yeah spoilers for real The I like the idea that the dead can't lie. There's no reason for them to be able to lie Any reason for them to lie they're dead It's over and done with you might as well tell the truth And I really really the one of my favorite parts of the book is when Terrio doesn't want to tell And that it anyways that that whole that whole thing I thought that was especially well done I don't know that I'd ever seen anything like that before So if you have let me know down there in the doodly-doo because I hadn't I like that rule I really enjoy that rule because it makes sense to me in a supernatural way And it makes a lot of sense. I guess the last thing I want to mention is There gonna be a lot of you who do not like this book And I respect that completely but I There's so often Especially in the Stephen King fandom you guys get really really excited just like me. I admit Also, if you don't like something you some of you become assholes So if you don't like this book, tell me why you didn't but I To say, you know, this book sucks adds absolutely nothing to the discussion So please if you if you've read this book and you don't like this book explain why you didn't like it beyond the supernatural Beyond that supernatural aspect because I know there's people I'm gonna get loads and loads I didn't like this because once again, he went, you know, he went supernatural is Stephen King It's what he does and I will die on this hill forever Stephen King does this it should be more of a shock to you when Stephen King doesn't write super doesn't write supernatural than when he does and Just because you don't think something is necessary or it's a cop-out doesn't mean it is But have you read later by Stephen King? If you have let me know down there in the doobly-doo Whether or not you loved it whether not she hated it once again if you loved it or hated it Let me know why so that we can have a discussion, but until next time. I have any you've been you this been another book review I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye