This was just mediocre for me. I have only read one other book by King (The Green Mile), but I feel like the screenplay format didn’t work as well as King’s novels. It was really drawn out, but not all that suspenseful. By the end, I was just pushing through to finish it rather than because I really cared what happened (which ended up being kind of predictable anyway). I think this format didn’t allow King to do what he does best, actually write and describe and create. It fell flat for me.

The story itself was alright. And the characters were pretty well-developed, which King said in the introduction that he was nervous about in his attempt to create a whole community. So that was a success.

The biggest issue for me was the format. King just wasn’t able to describe scenes in a way to make them horrific or suspenseful. I was able to visualize them, but in the end they fell flat.