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A review by exorcismemily
Mystery Walk by Robert R. McCammon
4.0
4.5⭐
"Everybody's on their own kind of Mystery Walk, following the trail of their days and doing the best with what life throws at them. Sometimes it's mighty hard to figure out what's right and wrong in this mixed-up world."
Mystery Walk is my first McCammon book, and I was not disappointed. This was a buddy read with Twitter friends, and I really enjoyed the book. It actually reminded me of The Dead Zone by Stephen King, but not in a way like one of them was copying the other - they just express similar sentiments.
This is an intriguing coming-of-age story with paranormal elements. It's set in Alabama in the 80s, and there were a lot of dark things happening. Obviously it was super racist, and bad people in the story claimed to do evil acts for religious purposes. Being from the south, I can relate to some of the villains of this book being shitty evangelicals who believe they're doing the right thing.
Robert McCammon does a great job with in-depth character studies while still creating interesting settings and storylines. My main complaint, and why it's 4.5 stars instead of 5, is because there were so many cool storylines, and not enough time was able to be spent on all of them. I kind of wish this book would have been a series. There's the weird town with a murder house, a carnival, the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning (not really, but close enough), etc.
I would have liked to spend more time in certain aspects of the story, and I feel like some plot points just dropped off since it moved onto the next big setting pretty quickly. Some parts were a little too over-the-top, and some just didn't have enough going on.
I loved this book, and I will definitely be reading more McCammon.
"Everybody's on their own kind of Mystery Walk, following the trail of their days and doing the best with what life throws at them. Sometimes it's mighty hard to figure out what's right and wrong in this mixed-up world."
Mystery Walk is my first McCammon book, and I was not disappointed. This was a buddy read with Twitter friends, and I really enjoyed the book. It actually reminded me of The Dead Zone by Stephen King, but not in a way like one of them was copying the other - they just express similar sentiments.
This is an intriguing coming-of-age story with paranormal elements. It's set in Alabama in the 80s, and there were a lot of dark things happening. Obviously it was super racist, and bad people in the story claimed to do evil acts for religious purposes. Being from the south, I can relate to some of the villains of this book being shitty evangelicals who believe they're doing the right thing.
Robert McCammon does a great job with in-depth character studies while still creating interesting settings and storylines. My main complaint, and why it's 4.5 stars instead of 5, is because there were so many cool storylines, and not enough time was able to be spent on all of them. I kind of wish this book would have been a series. There's the weird town with a murder house, a carnival, the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning (not really, but close enough), etc.
I would have liked to spend more time in certain aspects of the story, and I feel like some plot points just dropped off since it moved onto the next big setting pretty quickly. Some parts were a little too over-the-top, and some just didn't have enough going on.
I loved this book, and I will definitely be reading more McCammon.