Stephen King - Duma Key (some spoilers)Follow

Well, not going to add that many spoilers, not that easy to do actually.

After perhaps a bit of a silly opening, the book really comes to its own and becomes very interesting. Compared to King's previous books in the last ten years or so (perhaps not Blaze, but since he claims that's a very old story that one doesn't count), this is a very superior book.

The tale itself isn't all that grandscale, epic or innovative, but it seems to work. This isn't a book that feels like an overblown short story, like Lisey's Story. Nor does it start to get on the reader's nerves as the aforementioned on did with too absurd verbosity, all too silly scenes and just plain bad ones.

The pace of the story is slow, the horror content isn't much, it is again a story inbetween. Which I often find the best stories King writes.

It's been a while since I've said this, but this King is a book I would recommend.

Edited, Feb 2nd 2008 3:22pm by Zieveraar

I'm reading it now, all I can say is... wow. This blows Cell out of the water. Then again, I didn't like that one very much at all, but still... *whistles*

I love the way the story is told, the perspective works very well, the various imagery and the way King doesn't spell out everything the character is feeling and exactly what is going on is brilliant, it lets you connect some dots on your own and makes it so you're actively reading. Foreshadowing is used brilliantly as well. I'm about 3/5 of the way through, and it took a considerable amount of mental force to put it down.

I'm glad that this one is so good, I've been disappointed with what King has put out recently. It feels good to really sink my teeth into an author I enjoy.

Tough call, personally I'ld say finish Amber first, that one is better.

But that doesn't mean Duma Key is bad, far from it, more that I think Amber is a lot better, one of my favourites.