We’re all dying. The world’s just a hospice with fresh air.

Rating: 4 stars

Before this, I'd only read Carrie by Stephen King and while I loved that it didn't drive me to read more horror, just made me slightly curious about the genre. Then I was half-dragged to see Doctor Sleep in the cinema and I loved the movie so I picked up a paperback on impulse to see what it was like. I devoured the whole thing. From what I can tell from various online lists (I was making a Stephen King to read list and wanted more opinions) Doctor Sleep is rated middling for his books, but I adored it. It was, admittedly, much much better than the movie and I found it thrilling and creepy in equal measures. I wouldn't necessarily call this one a horror as such, but I was definitely driven to find out what would happen next and the shining-consuming-spirit-vampires were scary as fuck in moments. As soon as I'd closed the cover on this one, I was reserving The Shining at my local library (soon tbr I swear) and sorting through 'best of' lists so I could add more of King's novels to my tiny growing interest in horror.