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"Salem's Lot" by Stephen King || Book Review




Goodreads page:   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11590.Salem_s_Lot



My rating: 3/5

Plot:
The book follows one of your tiny all american villages in circumstances that are quite unusual.With a large number of characters to follow,the book shows the way all these people's lives are affected by the unexpected forces that come to their little town and are meant to change Jerusalem's Lot forever.

Thoughts on the book:
Just to get it out of the way from the very beginning,I'm still not the biggest fan of Stephen King's writing style,nor am I blown away by it.Sure,I can appreciate it and some aspects of it do intrigue and impress me,but it's still not doing it for me.That being said,let's get on to the book.
Although the book as a whole was quite enjoyable and managed to pull me in pretty early on,I did have quite a few issues with it.The main issues must've been regarding the characters.Being one to always look for greatly written characters and amazing character development and also being eternally focused more on the characters instead of action more often than not,the novel didn't manage to impress me all that much because none of the characters really did it for me.I couldn't connect to any of them,I didn't find any of them all that likable and so I could never really connect to any of them or care all that much about their fates,I didn't feel destroyed or wreck when hearing the fates of most of them and couldn't be bothered to care about any of them too much.There were only one or two that I felt somewhat attached to,but even with them,I didn't feel that invested in their fate.
Plot-wise and writing-wise,there was something a bit off about it for me every now and again.I believe it's mainly because a lot of scenes felt completely unnecessary and,although I hoped they'd all end up making sense and making me go something like 'ooooooooooh,right,so that's why that was put in',that was only the case with a few of them.Even so,some of those felt like they could've been taken out no problem and the book would've been the same.I was actually telling this to the friend that lent me the book and he said that he completely agrees with me on that one,so take it as you will (I mean,seriously,buddy,your book has 500 pages,I'm pretty sure you don't need about 10 of them to tell me what people in town are having for dinner).
The refreshing thing about the book in terms of perspective (ironically using the word 'refreshing' as the book's literally been out for ages) is the portrayal of vampires.With all sorts of not-so-deadly-looking-vampires in novels these days that are either sparkling and cannot be taken seriously or just dead hot and only really shown as love interests,it's pretty nice to see something more realistic about the possible existence of such creatures,meaning this vicious side.Don't get me wrong,I wasn't scared to the death,reading this at night didn't get me too jumpy or prevented me from sleeping or gave me nightmares,but I did like how Stephen King managed to develop the myth of these creatures.Sure enough,some aspects of their nature seemed a bit left out,but,mainly,I was a fan of what he did with them.
**Side note: i get that vamps took over your time,but 







Right,back to the more serious things.I felt like this was quite similar to 'Dracula' in quite a few ways,which was ironic and pretty awesome,if you ask me,but the sad thing is that the main similarity for me is that,just like with 'Dracula',the ending felt rushed and left me completely unsatisfied.
The main villain felt so bland and I felt like he completely lacked depth and I feel like instead of all those pages of telling me who sleeps with who or who eats what for dinner,King could've tried to give his villain at least a bit of a backstory.
Ultimately,I would recommend the book if you're into horror or scary vampire stories (or stories that are supposed to be scary,I do't know),it just didn't blow me away.

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