How to avoid writing an actual story with character development? Write 89 different side stories about 46 characters from which none are important. This was definitely something. At least my brain took a break because there was no plot to follow.

Totally liked it, but a little too much baseball, skipped those parts. I felt like I'm in the story and it was so fun to follow only one character. I was worried for her the whole time, have zero trust in King. I would also maybe like a longer book about this story, with 2 POVs - one Trisha's, what we had, and another following her family and search party.

The best part of this book? That it’s finally over! Joking aside, it was okay, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that King’s editors and publishers gave him far too much leeway—perhaps out of sympathy for the fact that he wrote it after his major accident. It feels like it’s missing a strong edit; the book is unnecessarily long, with excessive repetition and a lot of filler. Honestly, I skimmed through most of the second half.

There’s an overload of stream-of-consciousness writing and references, I got tired of reading footnotes and it was pulling me out of the flow constantly. That said, I really enjoyed the overlapping perspectives—seeing events unfold through different characters’ eyes added a fun dynamic.

As expected from King, the characters are well-developed, believable, and relatable. The ending was excellent and made up for the struggle of getting there. However, the story itself isn’t something I’d want to reread.

This was absolutely hillarious and I love that this book exists.

I really liked the story, the writing, characters, showing how one person's crimes have effect on so many people. I also liked that we got explanation how he became murderer, but we didn't give him too much attention, it was all about victims and their families. What I didn't like was the solution - I was expecting some awesome surprise and plot twist, but it turned out it was what I thought almost from the beginning it will be. The narrators were ok, maybe lady one should be more careful not to bump mic so many times lol Also, I was pleasantly surprised we got the interview with the author at the end, I wish every book had that!

I feel this whole series could be epic if it was actually developed into full story instead just draft. Introducing new characters and having dream sequences 100 pages before the end is just ridiculous to me. I feel nothing coming to end of it except I'm glad it's over.

Great novellas collection. The stories are so different that I feel every part of my brain was tickled. A must read for King lovers, especially Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.

It's funny I'm giving this such a high rating because I soft DNF'd it for 2 weeks when first started, but then I listened to it from the beginning again and really loved it. I liked how plot twist were interwoven into story, pacing was great - short chapters were a good choice, narrators did a wonderful job, everything just clicked for me.

I feel like Zelazny makes penultimate books in this series fillers. It was like that with Corwin's story and he did the same with Merlin - MC tripping balls the whole book. I skimmed most of it, nothing really important happened for most of the book.