I'll admit I haven't even read the summary I provide below or the jacket of the book yet. I bought it on faith, knowing it will be a great sequel. Have you ever purchased a book based on the author or the title or even the cover, without checking to see what the story is about?
Summary:
Stephen King returns to the character and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, the True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death.
Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant shining power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”
Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of The Shining and satisfy anyone new to this icon in the King canon.
I can't wait until you get to this. It definitely lives up to the hype. I gave it five stars on Goodreads. Yes, it's that good. Abra Stone is WONDERFUL.
ReplyDeleteI probably won't get to Doctor Sleep till February 2014 :-( Too many other books taking precedence and whenever I see a book that massive (in size/pages) I'm hesitant to start it. Once I get back into a rhythm of reading 100+ pages a day I'll feel more comfortable starting a book like that.
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