2.5 stars

king has great ideas and most of the time a great start to his books.

but after that? it always fizzles out. 

i actually think i would have loved this book a lot more if it would have just focused on the mom and the kid and how she used him and run with that and made that the entirety of the story. 

the entire liz part was very weak and a bit strange to me because sure it made sense in some ways but logically it was just a hot mess from start to finish. 

keeping on with the weak parts of the book: the writing wasn’t super strong in my option. could be the accent -was there one or was it jus to super strange writing that felt utterly dated for a book set in today’s time?- it was written in. or maybe i expected a bit of a different tone or voice for a story being told from a kids perspective for most of it?

i also hated the ending.
absolutely nothing new there. king does not manage to write endings that work for me and i always end up disappointed because it want a bigger umpf.
there is all this build up and then it’s just- alright that’s it and we’re done. 
and i always sit there with the finished book and look for lot pages that could explain that me what the heck i am missing because come on?!?! that couldn’t be how it ends?
but that’s just how king books end for me.

all in all?

it’s okay.

but it’s nothing spectacular or utterly unique.

it’s neither a fantastic horror -come on seeing dead people might be a horror genre but there has to be more than that to make me feel horrified (might say more about me than the book thought) nor a great mystery if you want to go with that? 

if you are a huge king fan read it.

if you want a great horror?

sorry wouldn’t recommend it.