Carrie
My brain is a torment of RAGE with which I wish to rain vengeance down upon the later half of this book! Everything progressed along as it should in the first half. The story moved at a good pace and the writing - though not moving - was adequate.
Then the climatic scene happened soon after the halfway mark. I'll rephrase that. The climax happened in the middle…the middle!
"An odd place for a climatic scene," I remember thinking. Nonetheless, I pushed on...and on and on through a rising tide of detail-cheating adverbs. "Oh mama, no!" I cried when, without warning/without notice/like lightning/like a flash/in the blink of an eye/in a heartbeat/quick and without cause, every action began happening "suddenly". I think King may have actually used suddenly twice in one sentence!
What happened?
Why did the editing stop midway through?
Why did the story drag on after it was essentially over?
In the end, this is a 2 star book that gets 3 for the interesting story and the strong start. Everything else is anticlimax.