It went pretty much as I expected it would, but considering that I wasn’t expecting much from this series in the first place, it still managed to surprise me with a pretty great second book. I was pretty miffed when I couldn’t read The Outsider when that came out (it sounded much more appealing, but I was told that it would reference and spoil this trilogy, which would’ve put me off reading it even more), and with the upcoming If It Bleeds containing a novella centered around yet another recurring character who first appears in the Bill Hodges series, I decided that it was time to bite the bullet. I’m a completist (now that this is over, I’m only missing a handful), and he just seems to keep piling on on this one. The non-or-only-slightly-supernatural stories are generally my favorites by King, but I just don’t think he’s very good at crime fiction… and yet, here we are.
After it was completed, I still put it off for years, because somewhere deep down, I suspected that it wouldn’t really be my thing. Mercedes first came out, it was already known that it would be the first book in a projected trilogy, and I never start an unfinished series if I can help it.
0 kommentar(er)
