Post by spitfire926f on Jan 13, 2023 17:37:58 GMT
Also posted on V2
*SOILERS, OBV.*
Well, I'm pleasantly surprised, because this is the second book by King I've read in the last couple months that I've absolutely loved, after putting him down for awhile cause I felt like he was starting to phone it in.
One of King's biggest criticisms is that he doesn't know how to end a book. I liked the ending here, but it was bittersweet. Jake went through the 5-years essentially for NOTHING. The lesson was we all belong to the time-line we're in. Even if you fix one tragedy, it won't stop other tragedy from happening, we can't immunize ourselves from it. Changing the past won't necessarily save the future. We only have the day we're in. Sadie still had a good life, but it had to be one without him.
I've always really liked the time-travel genre and often fantasized about traveling back in time to change my own family outcomes even to my own peril (my parents never would have met, my Dad never deserved my mother, to be perfectly honest). But this book makes me ponder if the butterfly effect would have just landed her with someone worse, but then without me around to be with her now to help her with her cancer diagnoses.
So that's the internal ramblings of my introverted heart that the story inspired. When King is good, he's awesome, especially when he's got a good editor, which seemed to be the case here. If anyone reads Fairy Tale (which I highly recommend) I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.
Oh, and I thought King did a great job of not preaching his personal politics in this. In his lazier books, he's gotten up on a soap box (can happen when a writer gets successful and passes his/her peak, see also: Dean Koontz). But I couldn’t help but notice that in the alternate future he had Maine secede from the US and become part of Canada and Hillary Clinton is President. King, you giant lib asshole, you couldn't stop yourself could you? FTR, I'd be willing to trade Maine to Canada for a direct route to Alaska. We don't really use it for anything.
All in all, for a horror writer, King writes a great cloak and dagger romance
*SOILERS, OBV.*
Well, I'm pleasantly surprised, because this is the second book by King I've read in the last couple months that I've absolutely loved, after putting him down for awhile cause I felt like he was starting to phone it in.
One of King's biggest criticisms is that he doesn't know how to end a book. I liked the ending here, but it was bittersweet. Jake went through the 5-years essentially for NOTHING. The lesson was we all belong to the time-line we're in. Even if you fix one tragedy, it won't stop other tragedy from happening, we can't immunize ourselves from it. Changing the past won't necessarily save the future. We only have the day we're in. Sadie still had a good life, but it had to be one without him.
I've always really liked the time-travel genre and often fantasized about traveling back in time to change my own family outcomes even to my own peril (my parents never would have met, my Dad never deserved my mother, to be perfectly honest). But this book makes me ponder if the butterfly effect would have just landed her with someone worse, but then without me around to be with her now to help her with her cancer diagnoses.
So that's the internal ramblings of my introverted heart that the story inspired. When King is good, he's awesome, especially when he's got a good editor, which seemed to be the case here. If anyone reads Fairy Tale (which I highly recommend) I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.
Oh, and I thought King did a great job of not preaching his personal politics in this. In his lazier books, he's gotten up on a soap box (can happen when a writer gets successful and passes his/her peak, see also: Dean Koontz). But I couldn’t help but notice that in the alternate future he had Maine secede from the US and become part of Canada and Hillary Clinton is President. King, you giant lib asshole, you couldn't stop yourself could you? FTR, I'd be willing to trade Maine to Canada for a direct route to Alaska. We don't really use it for anything.
All in all, for a horror writer, King writes a great cloak and dagger romance