★★★★☆ | Horror | Digital | Own | StoryGraph | Goodreads
I finished this 500+ page book in four days. In stark contrast, it took me at least a month to slog through the same number of pages of a Wallace Stegner novel. Stephen King books have a way of flying by.
While there are some supernatural spookiness in this one, there are some deep themes explored in the book. The grief of losing 22-year-old John Smith in a car accident cut close to home for me. Smith recovers with a second sight after being in a coma for almost five years. He wakes to find his mom crazed with religion very similar to my brother’s zeal for conspiracies. The book deals with politics and conjured Donald Trump thirty years before he took the political stage.Â
So many things had gotten strange so fast that all he could do was feel his way slowly along, groping like a blind man in an unfamiliar room.