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A review by tobin_elliott
Blaze by Stephen King, Richard Bachman
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
One of the King novels that didn't leave much of an impression when I first read it. It kind of had some things going against it for me when I first picked it up. It was an old trunk novel from 1975, 30 years earlier. It was going to be one of the Cold Case Crime books until it wasn't. And it's not horror.
Honestly I don't know why it wasn't just put out by Cold Case, as I think it's more a crime novel than COLORADO KID was, though yes, I think COLORADO was a better story overall.
I know, three months from now, this one's going to be mostly forgotten for a second time because, even as I read it, it left little impression, like a hastily gulped lunch in three minutes before your next meeting.
While it did have small flashes of the King magic here and there, overall it's only an okay story. I kept thinking, what would a David Joy, or John Hart, or most intriguingly, an Andre Dubus III have done with this?
Not a bad premise, but there's authors out there that do it far better.
Honestly I don't know why it wasn't just put out by Cold Case, as I think it's more a crime novel than COLORADO KID was, though yes, I think COLORADO was a better story overall.
I know, three months from now, this one's going to be mostly forgotten for a second time because, even as I read it, it left little impression, like a hastily gulped lunch in three minutes before your next meeting.
While it did have small flashes of the King magic here and there, overall it's only an okay story. I kept thinking, what would a David Joy, or John Hart, or most intriguingly, an Andre Dubus III have done with this?
Not a bad premise, but there's authors out there that do it far better.