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Het by Stephen King

54 reviews

cloudbooks's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

This book was just not for me.

The bad:
Simply put, it was too long. 500 pages of this could have been cut out completely and it would have been a better story. I couldn't keep all the characters in my head and I lost track of who and where and how.

For a book of over 1000 pages, it spent so long talking about anecdotes, about side characters, about unimportant scenes and in general it does not talk much about the monster. You easily spend 200 pages waiting for the monster. It's not scary. It's just annoying.

Also kids having sex in a sewer as the solution to killing the monster? No thank you. I understand why but I simply didn't like it. 

The good:
The monster was terrifying when it was there. The writing is really good too but this is Stephen King. That's to be expected. 

I will never touch this book again

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Homophobia, and Alcohol

ro_lux's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gun violence, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use

kylee_hegel's review against another edition

So bad I couldn't finish it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Pedophilia, and Racial slurs

leonor_mozo's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Blood

stuffo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and War

livya's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

bluejeepbaby's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Islamophobia, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Excrement, Vomit, and Antisemitism

reading_ani's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

I love Stephen King, but this book was such a draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag. I needed several attempts and a couple of switches between audiobook and normal reading just to make it through. The plot per se was great as always, but the prose was just really unnecessarily complicated and dragged out. Yet I’m just so happy to have finally managed to read the book that scared and scarred me so much when I was 10 years old and watched it with several older friends ages ago.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

apxllo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

esfjmrk's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Racial slurs, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail