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Four Past Midnight by Stephen King

3 reviews

acorn192k's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Vomit

rosereadsalot's review against another edition

4.0

The Langoliers: 3.5⭐️

Secret Window, Secret Garden: 4⭐️

The Library Policeman: 4⭐️

The Sun Dog: 3.5⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

bruinrocks's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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

4.5

This was a great collection of novellas, albeit a little long in my opinion. But each one had it’s strong points, with the exception of the third one which I found rather long and boring. 
The Langoliers - 4.5/5 A really fun adventure into the unknown and back, strong character development, with a terrifying concept, and I found The Langoliers to be one of Stephen King’s scarier entities, even if the description sometimes came off a little silly. 

Secret Window, Secret Garden - 3.75/5 It was a tense novella with a very predictable plot, still really well written, and a lot of fun, the predictability lowers my ranking for it though. 

The Library Policeman - 3/5 A long and boring story in the middle, and very intense climax followed by a lacklustre ending. 

The Sun Dog - 4.75/5 Not perfect but damn near close. I love taking pictures and this story rocked my socks. The best of the four, it gripped me from start to finish and I believe it’s the shortest of the four novellas and it moves at a great pace with a ending that closes out the collection nicely. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Rape

Moderate: Animal death and Racial slurs

Minor: Alcoholism, Stalking, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis