Revival by stephen king5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() They live in Harlow, Maine, his parents are normal and decent, as are his siblings. He’s the youngest of five children and part of a loving family. The story begins in the 1960s, when Jamie Morton is six years old. It’s hard to put my finger on it, but there’s something about the voice that stands apart from King’s other books. Revival doesn’t start out seeming like it will be a dark book, but it does have a different feel to it. ![]() It’s relentlessly bleak from the beginning. The first time I read Pet Sematary, I had to put it down from time to time because I could see where King was headed and I wasn’t ready to go there yet. Pretty disturbing.Īre comparisons between Revival and Pet Sematary appropriate? Well, yes and no. How bad could it be? As it turned out, pretty gruesome. His wife concurred, so a mythos developed around it. After he finished writing that book, he deemed it too gruesome and disturbing to be published. Those comments, along with his publisher’s statement on the back of review copies that she asked him whether the book “really had to be this dark,” will probably remind people of King’s thoughts about Pet Sematary. ![]() If you’re going to buy it, better tone up your nerves.” I don’t even want to think about that book anymore…It’s a nasty, dark piece of work.” A couple of months later, on his Twitter feed, he described it as “a straight-ahead horror novel. In an interview in June, King revealed his first thoughts about Revival. ![]()
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