Salems Lot

Review

I stayed up til 2AM last night (this morning…) to finish reading this, and I’m having kind of a hard time rating it. Very unlike Stephen King, the last third is a 5-star book. I rarely mind King’s endings, but a lot of them struggle a bit. This one didn’t, though I could understand some grumbling about parts of it. I did find it terribly slow to start, and I thought the relationship between Mears and Susan was excruciatingly boring and shallow, especially thinking about the romance in 11/22/63.

So, I’ll probably put this around 3.5 stars. I really enjoyed the second half, and loved the last third. Father Callahan is one of my favorite characters from The Dark Tower series, and it’s really weird to have been introduced to him there and then see his origin (and what happens there) in this book. I had to fight a strong urge not to immediately go to the shelf and pick up Wolves of the Calla to re-read. I allayed it by telling myself I’ll go back soon.

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