Bag of Bones - Stephen King

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Title: Bag of Bones Author: Stephen King Genre: Thriller Rating: 5/10 # pages: 487 Date read: May, 2006

Summary: Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan?

Review: Meh... I like some thrillers, but I don't think I'm too much of a Stephen King fan... at least I haven't been terribly impressed with what I've read by him so far. It's weird though... I enjoy reading his books, and most of them are definitely page-turners, but once done, I put them down feeling strangely un-impressed. This one more than most though. I found the entire plot quite unprobably - even within its own universe.

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