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Jan 20, 2017Beatricksy rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I was promised scares. But it isn't scary. It's a discussion on grief--and yet, clumsily handled despite the value of the topic. The book direction is too obvious; foreshadowing is clumsy. The build up leads to a weak, unnecessarily gory ("scary") climax. It should have been 200 pages shorter: so much is unrelated babbling. I was expecting a zombie cat horror. A story about a loved one, a beloved family pet, that turns out to be disgustingly evil, and how the family copes with that. Instead I just got a smelly, clumsy cat that makes people feel a little uncomfortable. And is dismissed and forgotten in a few pages anyway. (Spoiler: why does the evil burial ground know that you're plotting to stop Louis [even if you don't know what he's actually up to] and literally snap off your car battery cables from hundreds of miles away or put you into a strange hypnotic sleep, but doesn't seem to mind Louis walking around with morphine syringes in his pocket to kill the big bad?) This is my third King attempt. He's just not my cup of tea. Sorry.