A kid sees dead people, but when one starts taking an interest to him, he and his mother are in a dangerous spot in Stephen King's Later.
King has now written a couple of these crime-flavored, supernatural-tinged novels for the Hard Case Crime line. Hard Case Crime has largely printed reprints of forgotten noir novels, or contemporary novels in that classic vein, but King has somehow forged a relationship with them, and who would turn down a Stephen King novel?
I hate to say, if I did not know King wrote it, I would say it was a second-tier Stephen King knockoff. The story of a kid with powers and a troubled single parent is not unfamiliar to King fans.
I think what really took me out of the story is that the narrator is in his 20s, in contemporary time, talking about his childhood in the early 2000s, but uses the slang of a guy in his 70s (like the author). It was surprisingly tone deaf to how modern kids and teenagers talk.
For people who read everything Stephen King writes.
I checked this out from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library in New Castle, Indiana and read it quickly.
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