Under the Dome

This isn't a very good novel.

The characters are flat - meaning they do most of what you'd expect. The antagonist is evil and stupid, the heroes - good, a bit tarnished, but what do you expect from King? The town is in Maine, but might as well be another world entirely.

So don't go into this expecting a good novel. You won't find it here.

It's not a novel at all. It's a novel-length fairy tale.

By that, I mean that the story is almost exactly what you'd expect from a fairy tale. Evil harms good, situation forces good to confront evil, evil defeats itself due it its own stupidity. So don't read it for the story. Read it for the storytelling. And in that, King still does a good job.