Reviews
A #1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice! Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war.
It was slow at the beginning. But when you got past the first few chapters. It got really good.
The building up and beginning character building was absolutely amazing. I thought this was going to be one of my favorite books of all time . The second the plot turned towards the "fairy tale" side of things the plot was lost so fast. It was a sloppy boring mess and I felt like I was reading a book written by someone else in the second half.... could've been so much better
Soooo slow. Draaaagged and draaaagged… which would have been fine if it led up to something great. It doesn’t. This book isn’t BAD- I did at least finish it, despite considering DNF’ing it MULTIPLE times- but it’s not really good either. I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to just hurry up and finish a book more. Charlie is a 17 year old boy who befriends a grouchy old man and his dog. After about 250ish pages of that story, Charlie finds himself in a cursed fairy tale land under the earth…. NOT the Disney kind, as stated many times in the book. The rest of the story is about Charlie’s journey through the land (while meeting an interesting cast of character along the way) and his role in helping “break the curse” and protecting the secret of that world from ours. Sounds like an interesting premise, but didn’t quite manage to hit the mark for me.
Loved the beginning slice of life coming of age story set in our world but I found the fantastical world a bit clunky.