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A review by moonbabie
Gerald's Game by Stephen King
5.0
I just finished reading this.
It took me a while to get through but life happened. But I got myself to finish it these last 3 days...
Let me just say, what a ride.
It's very hard to find a copy of this where I live and I happened upon a second-hand copy at a 2nd hand bookshop a couple months ago.
So I'd obviously watched the Netflix movie first. Which i wasn't sure how spot on it was in comparison to the book, I'm now thoroughly impressed cause they got it exact.
So my first thoughts are: wtf did I just read, I'm so uncomfortable in so many different ways and I am disturbed. For me to say that is very rare cause I watch horror movies for fun and am so desensitized at this point... But this book. Something else. King really is a literary genius. If his intention was to make the reader incredibly uncomfortable and unsettled to their core. He 100% achieved that and deserves my 5 star rating honestly. I'm blown away.
I do think if there are reprints in future or whatever... There should be a trigger warning in the beginning as some of the themes in this book were very hard for me to read... As it probably is for most people who have experienced such things.
However, I am really impressed and I'm honestly at a loss for words... I don't think a book has ever shook me to my core like this in terms of the horror genre.
Overall a really good book. Really disturbing but it achieved what it was meant for. I watch the movie zero issues. Maybe a tad uncomfy in some scenes... But nothing unbearable. But with King's descriptions and just the way he puts his imagery down... It's just something else.
Had to tell my best friend to give this one a skip as he definitely wouldn't be able to stomach it
It took me a while to get through but life happened. But I got myself to finish it these last 3 days...
Let me just say, what a ride.
It's very hard to find a copy of this where I live and I happened upon a second-hand copy at a 2nd hand bookshop a couple months ago.
So I'd obviously watched the Netflix movie first. Which i wasn't sure how spot on it was in comparison to the book, I'm now thoroughly impressed cause they got it exact.
So my first thoughts are: wtf did I just read, I'm so uncomfortable in so many different ways and I am disturbed. For me to say that is very rare cause I watch horror movies for fun and am so desensitized at this point... But this book. Something else. King really is a literary genius. If his intention was to make the reader incredibly uncomfortable and unsettled to their core. He 100% achieved that and deserves my 5 star rating honestly. I'm blown away.
I do think if there are reprints in future or whatever... There should be a trigger warning in the beginning as some of the themes in this book were very hard for me to read... As it probably is for most people who have experienced such things.
However, I am really impressed and I'm honestly at a loss for words... I don't think a book has ever shook me to my core like this in terms of the horror genre.
Overall a really good book. Really disturbing but it achieved what it was meant for. I watch the movie zero issues. Maybe a tad uncomfy in some scenes... But nothing unbearable. But with King's descriptions and just the way he puts his imagery down... It's just something else.
Had to tell my best friend to give this one a skip as he definitely wouldn't be able to stomach it