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A review by art_books_chemistry
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
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? Yes
4.0
This is only my second Stephen King and sure how I feel about his style still. It's also hard to write a review on something I knew the general story premise for before reading it. I have not actually seen either movie adaptation but seen enough clips and heard enough discussion to know what was going to happen.
With that, I thought that very little happened through most of the book. It didn't necessarily make it feel slow most of the time. For me, whenever it started to be dragging something big would happen for a couple mins. But nearly all the major action happened in the last 2hrs of this 15+ hr audiobook.
I liked the commentary on death and grieving. Everyone really does grieve differently whether in a healthy way or not. Death is also truly an important part of life regardless of if we want to accept it.
Michael C. Hall was also an awesome narrator for this; I could listen to Dexter read horror all day, every day!
With that, I thought that very little happened through most of the book. It didn't necessarily make it feel slow most of the time. For me, whenever it started to be dragging something big would happen for a couple mins. But nearly all the major action happened in the last 2hrs of this 15+ hr audiobook.
I liked the commentary on death and grieving. Everyone really does grieve differently whether in a healthy way or not. Death is also truly an important part of life regardless of if we want to accept it.
Michael C. Hall was also an awesome narrator for this; I could listen to Dexter read horror all day, every day!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Car accident, and Death of parent