Mauro reviewed Duma Key by Stephen King
Action and adventure with cheesy horror elements.
3 stars
I've been reading Stephen King's novels since I was a kid in the early nineties. But I think I'm done for good now. Don't get me wrong, the Master of Terror is always entertaining, but I find his stories too based into a mundane American landscape (psychological and physical) that doesn't belong to me at all. And his insistence on making the reader cringe with weird use of young kids and such in his plots it's getting on my nerves, honestly. Like some low blows that are way too predictable to be effective.
Nonetheless, Duma Key was, again, entertaining like an obvious Hollywood movie, which resembling an old blanket is always there to comfort you but never to amaze.
I've been reading Stephen King's novels since I was a kid in the early nineties. But I think I'm done for good now. Don't get me wrong, the Master of Terror is always entertaining, but I find his stories too based into a mundane American landscape (psychological and physical) that doesn't belong to me at all. And his insistence on making the reader cringe with weird use of young kids and such in his plots it's getting on my nerves, honestly. Like some low blows that are way too predictable to be effective.
Nonetheless, Duma Key was, again, entertaining like an obvious Hollywood movie, which resembling an old blanket is always there to comfort you but never to amaze.