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Friedhof der Kuscheltiere by Stephen King

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natasha_k's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

This was a good horror story, masterfully written.
However, it felt a little too long.

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anyberg's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

One of his better endings. Had a wild moment about a 1/3 of the way through where I wasn’t even listening to the book, just thinking about it and I realized what was going to happen and experience a crazy wave of dread anticipation but was still hooked through the rest as that played out. I think he intended that to happen to some extent which is very cool. Still surprised by some of the turns

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ratmaninrut's review against another edition

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dark tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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jessi_lou95's review against another edition

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dark sad tense medium-paced

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

1.5

Really outdated language used, completely unnecessary and has not aged well

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bj813's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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elizakay's review against another edition

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dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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nadia's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

I went into this book with really high expectations — probably because this is the favourite King of the person who inspired me to do my big King chronological read and our book tastes are very similar — and I left really liking this book, but it wasn't the five-star read (and what would have been my first King five-star, 17 books in) I hoped it would be.

The writing was brilliant, as was the portrayal of grief, and it evoked chilling feelings at time, but I just wasn't captivated by the book as much as I hoped. It didn't have as big of an emotional impact as I thought. It felt like a big chunk in the middle lagged and I wanted the story to pick up the pace!

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chickenjoeinthewild's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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mlkao94697's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

The worst crime of this book was just how boring it was. The exploration style of writing that is used to try to connect us to the characters and set up the plot of the story might work for some people, but not for me. It just made the plot feel really meandering. About 70% of the way through the book,

after Gage died

, things started to pick up a bit, but even then there were only a few parts that were really engaging and the rest just more or less dragged on. The ending did not make up for the rest of the book either.

I thought that the influence of the Wendigo just kind of took the gas out of the whole plot, and in a way, it removed a lot of the responsibility of the events of the book from Louis, which I found kind of annoying.

The other characters besides Louis and Jud were so one-dimensional and basically felt only like tools for the plot. The passive sexism and racism were also super grating. The female characters could basically just be boiled down to sex objects. This was especially prevalent with Rachel, who was only there to serve as a source of pleasure for Louis

and her main contribution to the book is her childhood trauma, which is used as a horror device later in the book

. Also, the evil "Indian" burial grounds wreaking havoc on the poor white people premise is so overdone.

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drkng31's review against another edition

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dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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