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I really liked this book!! More than i expected i would honestly. up until a certain point nothing was so Stephen King-y that it made me roll my eyes (until it got really stephen king-y really fast, but there is not a SINGLE reference to menstruation or a single racial slur in this entire book!! good job steve).

My two complaints:

This man knows NOTHINGGG about being born in the year 2000. This book was mostly taking place in like 2012 without a single acknowledgement of either red skinny jeans or the classic song party rock anthem by LMFAO. this protagonist was supposed to be i think four months younger than me and i get that he was quirky and different and not like the other boys but i still think stephen shouldve hired me as a cultural history consultant.

My second complaint is that the Maury shit at the end came out of NOWHEREEEE!!!!! I was perfectly happy with this fatherless young man and his gayass mom and then in the last fuckin twenty pages Stephen had to go completely apeshit. IYKYK i guess but frankly i want to go back in time and unread the last little bit of the book because i dont CARE and it was WEIRD!!!!

Oh also this is a spoiler but it was weird that the one guy mentioned that the gayass mom had cancer and six months to live and then that was never addressed again and the mom lived at LEAST multiple more years. But i guess that guy who said it was also a demon and maybe also the same flavor of demon as my best friend pennywise since this book was apparently maybe also in the same universe as the clown books so i guess maybe he told a lie? Who knows but that confused me. I wish that he hadnt used the term “deadlights” and all the ritual of chud stuff because everything else about this book made fine sense to me as a stand alone novel but then it had to be recontextualized any time that shit came up. Anyway im going to bed

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adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

Dafür, wie entspannt die Geschichte begonnen hat - fast wie ein Memoir einer etwas ungewöhnlichen, aber größtenteils normalen Person-, hat mich das Ende ziemlich überrascht. Klar, die Menge an Action hat zugenommen, aber viel krasser fand ich die Geheimnisse und wie die Leute einfach damit lebten. Die Art der Erzählung fand ich sehr gelungen, zu Beginn war es gewöhnungsbedürftig, es hat sich aber über das Buch entwickelt, was glaubwürdig ist, da exakt das dargestellt werden sollte.
Dadurch dass nicht alle Fragen geklärt wurden, ist die Geschichte zwar etwas unzufriedenstellend beendet worden, das passt jedoch ins Genre, da man sich so unwohl fühlt. Es ist eher ein schleichende Horror in dieser Story.

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dark medium-paced

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

3.25

Una de las pocas historias de King que creo tiene la cantidad justa de páginas. No es un secreto para nadie que a King le gusta escribir más de la cuenta, sin embargo creo que en este libro escribió lo justo y necesario.

La trama me gustó porque cuando empezaba a pensar que la historia iba por un lado me daba cuenta que se iba por el otro, en parte es debido a que no tenía planeado leer este libro, por tanto no leí sinopsis ni nada. No es que sea una historia particularmente innovadora, pero por lo menos sabe mantenerte enganchado.

Su final... es un gran wtf. No digo que sea bueno o malo, la verdad no me importa qué es lo que pasa en el, simplemente pienso que no aporta nada. Supongo que como el libro tiene un poco de coming-of-age entre medio del horror, se puede ver como el cierre del ciclo de la niñez del Jamie, pero incluso si es así, pudo ser mejor.

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