★★★☆☆ | Horror | Digital | Borrow | StoryGraph | Goodreads
Stephen King must have felt he needed a challenge when he started this one. How about a horror novel with just one character handcuffed to a bed with the only way to move the story along is through inner dialogue. Oh, and let that character be a woman, and let that woman be sexually abused by her father as a child. Yep, that would be a challenge.
And, I guess he succeeded? Maybe? I’m torn over this one, because it feels offensive to me that a male author would attempt to put himself in the tortured mind of an abused woman.
She is helpless to change what is going to happen, and she understands that this is the very essence of both nightmare and tragedy.
I almost stopped reading about halfway through. Having finished, I’m not sure if I got anything out of this one.
I am scraping the bottom of the Stephen King barrel.