Just finished Duma Key!

Duma Key by Stephen King
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Kudos SK, this is one of the best books I've read. I'm not sure if I think it's better than IT or The Shining because it's completely different but just as good. I wouldn't know where to begin describing this book, I kind of took it as not just a thriller but a book about friendship and finding yourself.

When I first started reading it, I was so busy and it took me a couple of weeks or so to get into it but once the art started, I found myself buried in it at every possible opportunity.
I found myself more than a little creeped out by it, probably because the scare wasn't obvious... it creeped out at you when least expected and it was only short and then you'd be back to normal again trying to guess at the hint just given to you.

At no point during this novel did I know what was going to happen which is quite rare I think, on some level you can guess within the boundaries of a genre what will happen but I couldn't with this. If someone had told me at the start that by the end of it they were going to be drowning a china doll in a torch after witnessing a floating lawn jockey and an upside heron, I would have laughed and worried about Mr King's sanity.

I found myself emotionally invested in all of the characters, especially Wireman and the only criticism I have about this book, and it's a picky one at that, is that I wish there was maybe more of a 'bang!' at the end. We 'met' Perse as the china doll but I would maybe have liked to have seen a lifesize confrontation with her which could have been a little scarier. The time up at the old Heron's Roost wasn't quite dramatic enough I don't think. Maybe I've been watching too many Hollywood endings, I don't know.

I've given this book 5/5 stars because damn, it was good.

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