

I still have not read any of his most famous works like *Carrie* or *It*, but if they are anything like *Later*, then I may just end up not wanting to read them(But more on that later).Over his 50 years of writing, King has authored over 200 short stories and novellas, as well as 65 novels. Come to think of it, I may just not like Stephen King's work. The last few chapters did hold my attention pretty well, but the overall story I feel is pretty weak. Overall, I did not like this book whatsoever. I felt that Stephen King could have done literally ANYTHING else but what he did regarding Jamie's dad(But more on that later). The ending regarding who Jamie's father is is so.awful. Burkett who I wished we got to see more of(But more on that later).Ī few other weird things I uncovered reading this book: the main killer's ghost apparently gets supernatural powers for no exact reason, the character Liz Dutton suddenly turns evil without much buildup, there's at least one or two spelling errors, and perhaps the weirdest thing in the entire novel happens in the last few pages where we are revealed who Jamie's father actually is. The characters in this book are also not that interesting aside from Mr. The main conflict that the book presents, the case regarding the killer, gets resolved within two of the books 50+ chapters. Most of the time, the story is about Jamie as a pre-teen dealing with his life situations with the dead-body-viewing taking up a small portion of the book.

While it may sound interesting, the book is anything but. However, solving the case causes a lot more trouble for Jamie than he originally anticipated(But more on that later). Jamie ends up having to use his powers to solve a case involving someone who plans on killing a lot of people from beyond the grave. He lives with his mother who runs a business publishing books while his Uncle Harry lives in various care facilities having contracted early-onset Alzheimer's. The book follows Jamie Conklin, a boy who has the power to see dead people and can extract the truth from them. Though, there are some elements of horror spread throughout(But more on that later). *Later* is a recently released novel of his that is apart of his Hard Case series of books. Up until this point, I have only read his book * Cell *, parts of the book *The Shining*, saw *The Shining* movie(didn't really like it), and now I have read *Later*.

I'm not a big fan of Stephen King's work.
