This week's book
Fairy Tale
By Stephen King
This is King's newest book, I do believe. I kept on picking the novel up and then putting it down because I don't have time to sit down and read a hardback book that is over six hundred pages, and it's also on the pricey side. Instead of buying the book, I put the audiobook on hold from the library and waited. I ended up doing a buddy chat for the novel on Facebook messenger. I'm glad I did because I don't know if I would have finished it otherwise.
This novel feels like three books in one, which are all different genres. The book opens with a high school football player that befriends an elderly neighbor and takes care of him after he has had a fall, then the boy goes to a fairy tale land that totally reminds me of Narnia, and then the book turns into a Hunger Games-ish nightmare land. The book kept giving me whiplash.
In the buddy chat we were talking about how some of King's novels seem like they are a little too long, and this book is one of those times. Of course, the novel is very well written and has such amazing descriptions, but the novel just seemed a little too long.
I would probably recommend the book, but it just wasn't my favorite of King's works.
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