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Later by Stephen King

4 reviews

ftjulez's review against another edition

dark funny tense medium-paced

4.25

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Incest, Torture, Police brutality, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, and War

slim's review against another edition

dark lighthearted 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? No

2.5

It was ok. Had it been longer I wouldn't have finished it, I don't think. The premise was interesting - a boy who can talk to ghosts that can't lie - but I didn't feel like the story really did it justice. It was a bit plain; not much happened. It was written in the first-person, similar to a diary, where the narrator (the boy who can speak to ghosts, Jamie) sort of just outlined the times throughout his life he'd talked to ghosts and something mildly interesting occurred. There he would also sort of talk about his mum, his mum's ex-girlfriend, Uncle Harry and some others. 

I think I just finished it because King is a good writer, but overall fairly boring story, in my opinion.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Death, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body horror, Blood, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Incest, Rape, and Abortion

health anxiety, hypochondria

allweseeorseem's review

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

This was a pretty fun ghost/crooked cop/son-mother relationship story. I really enjoyed it until the end, which really ticked me off.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Abortion, and Pregnancy

ashthemenace's review

adventurous dark mysterious

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Vomit, and Alcohol

Minor: Rape and Abortion