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Finally read this after it being recommended for ages as I enjoy Stephen King and the horror genre itself.
This is a good book and I did enjoy it, however if you are going in to it wanting to be scared, this isn't the book in my opinion. Not sure if the standards for scary were a lot weaker in the 80's, but I didn't even come close to being scared whilst reading it.
The pacing is also a little slow at some points and I felt like I needed to “get through” the first third or so.
Really liked this book after finally reading it.
I know Stephen King is known for fleshing things out, but my only criticism is that I think I would have liked it more if it was just a little bit shorter, like 100 pages or so.
This may just be because I have adhd, but I did struggle to focus in some of the more “dull” sections and I didn't really feel they added much to the overall story.
In general, I liked this book, however there was a moment that made me feel uneasy.
Obviously age gap romances will always be a bit controversial, but normally I'm of the opinion that as long as it's two consenting adults, who cares.
But when it got to a part where it was talking about how Alice was an adult when Joy was born and how she held her when she was just a baby, idk, that creeped me out a bit ngl.
Other than that, I enjoyed this book despite the cancer plot line coming up out of nowhere and feeling like it was just thrown in there to resolve a conflict right at the end.
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