Book: Doctor Sleep

Genre: Horror

Type: Audiobook.

Book rating: ☆☆☆

Narration rating: ☆☆☆

Review


Okay you will not actually believe how excited i was when i heard that this book was going to be published.

I mean this is Stephen King guys STEPHEN KING!!!!

My first ever real book that i read and reread over and over was Firestarter, i even loved the film when it came out, even though King himself hated it haha.

After that King became a little bit of an obsession of mine and I eagerly devoured everything I could by him.

Anyway I digress, Doctor Sleep is a sequel to The Shining although it is a very light sequel which very slowly pushes you back to the Outlook..

So did you ever wonder what happened to that little boy, you know the one in spooky hotel that used to ride around the floors on his tricycle?

Yeah, me neither but apparently Mr King did so he wrote another book.

Danny Torrence is still haunted by some of things that he saw at the Outlook hotel.

We meet him at the beginning of the book still quite young, remember the woman in the bathroom? she's still here but now she's all mouldy and disgusting and she still visits him regularly.

We can move later on in Danny's life and slowly see him turning into his father, something that he is determined not to do.
After hitting rock bottom we meet Danny again at his AA meetings however in the meantime we have met somebody else much more exciting Abra.

She also has 'The Shining' but much stronger and she has been picked up on the radar by a very nasty group called the True Knot.
I will never look at a top hat the same again,.... shudder.......

As per every other Stephen King book, it took a good 100 pages or so to really get going, and after it did it was a great ride.
Rose 'The Hat' was creepy enough to be a good main character and Abra was brilliant.

Iwas however slightly disappointed as it didn't really kick ass enough to get me cheering.

Great read however, very long, 18 hours is a long time to just fill in and that is what it felt like sometimes.