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If It Bleeds by Stephen King

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charlibirb's review against another edition

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3.75

A good read. Really like the character of Holly Gibney. Not too spooky.

jordysbookclub's review against another edition

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3.0

QUICK TAKE: I don't think I'm a fan of Stephen King short stories. Unlike many, I like the 300 pages of world-building and character descriptions and set-up. And I missed that here with these stories that I found neither that scary or interesting. The best one is for sure the last story featuring Holly Gibney that is essentially a sequel to THE OUTSIDER. I read the book a few months ago and couldn't even tell you what happened in the other stories. Not for me.

pink_chicken_mama168's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

corina708's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

Another great story (and then some) of Holly! And she’s battling another “new and improved” outsider!! I really hope King continues with her character.

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3.0

I’m not a Stephen King superman but have read quite a lot of his catalogue and thought this one was decidedly average. The first story about the phone was ok - but typical Stephen King, as soon as a new character appears then you get their entire history from birth, childhood,school, through adulthood- and then they die.

The second story made little sense really- and it took me some time to work out what it was all about.

Story 3, the title story, would have been a lot better if I’d read some of the previous books involving the main character as there is a lot of reference to previous incidents, including spoilers if you haven’t read them - so a relatively lacklustre experience for me.

And The Rat? Could have been written in about 20 pages - so much padding.

Not his best work.