Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Having loved the Shining, Doctor Sleep was a must read for me...as are all books by Stephen King ;) And knowing that I like his more recent works better than his earlier ones I went into this with high expectations - which were fulfilled to the fullest. The world building is huge (what I love most about King's stories) and everything seems to be intertwined with his other stories (as also typical for his writing). Dan's childhood name, his family inheritance, the places, his experiences - everything we know from the first book is built into this sequel and somehow makes more sense now, just as if this really is the documentation of the real future of this little special child that had to spend a traumatic winter in a hotel in the mountains of Colorado. Stephen King is an excellent story teller because everything fits together so perfectly, that the reader really gets the feeling, he's just that: he tells Danny's story and he didn't make up anything. The links to the past, the many descriptions of little details and the telling of side stories let the story seem so real which makes it scarier than the big amount of blood and rotten flesh in King's earlier works.
It's the creativity of the Shining wrapped in a more mature writing style.
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