What a great book and an awesome way to end the trilogy.

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5/5

This book is just great, both as a standalone story and as an ending to King's Bill Hodges Trilogy. It completely picks up the small flaws of the last book and offers a thrilling detective story with a hunt for a monstruous criminal.

Let's start talking about the villain. Brady Hartsfield may be human, but he is also another terrifying monster created by King. Just a man raised to be almost pure hatred, despising everything and everyone. And even worse, willing to act on this despise to cause innocent people pain. In almost a similar manner to Pennywise, he feeds off other people's misery. He doesn't want to kill people, he wants to lead people to suicide.

And opposing him is a sickly, retired detective with very few resources. Hodges is a refreshing change for a crime thriller detective: he is quick, but most of it comes from experience, he listen to other people and, above it all, he is a nice person. Hodges is absolutely not perfect, but he serves as a great rival to Harsfield's pure monstrosity.

And Holly Gibney shy and scared of the world, a unlikely person to be chosen to defend it, but she is driven to do it for her own personal moral. Simply because she can't let someone like Hartsfield get away with that. She is also clearly one of King's favorite characters in the last few years and you can notice that by how often he uses her.

My review focuses on the characters, which I love, because I think going into the plot too much might ruin things. So, I'll conclude by saying: this book is great, showing most of what I love in King's most recent works and is a damn good finale for a damn good trilogy. ( )

A bland ending to a bland trilogy, though Stephen King almost manages to make it all passably readable,

I think the biggest problem is that King went all in on a villain who, in the end, is not particularly interesting. He's just a creepy little racist, homophobic, and nihilistic white guy. He worked well enough in the first book of the series, but he just wasn't worth bringing back and spending so much time laying out ever detail of his dumb, sadistic plan. He did little more than serve up a couple of triggering scenes busting on gay and fat people. And, really, since the whole novel is built around suicidal ideation, it is probably more triggering than entertaining for a lot of potential readers.

And is the Sno-Cat in the finale supposed to be King setting right the ending of The Shining film vis a vis-à-vis Dick Hallorann? Anti-climactic as hell. ( )

3-

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Page-Turning Techniques

In this novel, King gives us a textbook on ways to end chapters and scenes to keep the pages turning. ( )