Fairy Tale

I really enjoyed this! I found it a little slow to start, and kind of disorientating for two reasons. 1) Unlike many (most?) of King's books, this isn't set in Maine, but in Illinois (my home state), so it felt pretty close to home. 2) The protagonist is a high school kid, in high school at roughly the same year that I graduated high school. This caused some odd friction when King writes about “opening up Safari” or “going to the Tube” or “everything's on the Net” which is “awesome sauce.”

Thankfully, once the story gets going, we get into stuff that is much more in the ol' wheelhouse and this turns into a lovely fairy tale of fairy tales. I had a lot of fun reading this.