Frances
I was drawn in by the first third of the book, which reminded me a lot of his earlier works - where the horror elements are there but don't compare to the horror that is life - but got uninterested real quick when it got more and more into 'Dark Tower' territory. The characters introduced in the second half just fall flat and I stopped caring about how the story would end. It's not because the book is terrible. It's filled with a a lot of references to classic horror, folk lore and fairy tales and an endearing hommage to the genre. But the story itself is just lackluster and the protagonist is a teenaged boy with the soul of a 70 year old white guy from Maine.
If you want to read a King book about a twisted fairy land, I suggest The Talisman.
I was drawn in by the first third of the book, which reminded me a lot of his earlier works - where the horror elements are there but don't compare to the horror that is life - but got uninterested real quick when it got more and more into 'Dark Tower' territory. The characters introduced in the second half just fall flat and I stopped caring about how the story would end. It's not because the book is terrible. It's filled with a a lot of references to classic horror, folk lore and fairy tales and an endearing hommage to the genre. But the story itself is just lackluster and the protagonist is a teenaged boy with the soul of a 70 year old white guy from Maine.
If you want to read a King book about a twisted fairy land, I suggest The Talisman.
