'Salem's Lot

9.5/10

This book absolutely slaps. I think it's my fourth time reading it and I am just enraptured the whole time. However, I haven't read it since I was like ~21 and I've definitely changed as a reader since then, I recognize that there are some things in this book that I wouldnt appreciate if I read it for the first time now, and now that I've read most of King's bibliography, it's obvious how much his writing has evolved in the last 40 years (whose wouldn't). I still count this among my favorite books ever though, I can't discount how tied to my nostalgia reading the book is. It just feels cozy and terrifying to me at the same time, idk. Still in my top 5 King novels without a doubt.