(I purchased the audiobook as it was narrated by Will Patton and seemed to be a murder mystery like the “Bill Hodges” trilogy). Didn’t expect that but I wasn’t too surprised coz I think I read somewhere that she plays a part in this book. It was nice how towards the middle of the book he just introduces her into the story. “The Outsider” continues this by taking up the supernatural a notch. King’s usual super natural stuff I didn’t mind it and it gelled along with the rest of the books. They had the right pace and mystery for me and while the third one was less mystery and more of Mr. What didn’t make this great for me though is that it is less in the vein of his “Bill Hodges” trilogy, although the book is meant to be a spiritual successor to it I think in that it’s a murder mystery and has one of the characters – Holly Gibney – play a central role in this book. I don’t mind verbosity and lots of detail and meandering etc., and it’s good to see everything slowly come to place and fit together. It’s very “procedural” and you can think of it as a piece of tapestry slowly woven together by the various threads that is each chapter. It has its moments though and the story gets better and picks up pace as we go along. Just wrapped up an 18 and half hour listen of Stephen King’s “The Outsider”.
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