Revival

After spending so much time away from books, I knew I would return to Stephen King soon. I didn't know that I would be reading a vaguely religious book, which makes three religious books of four books that I've read in a week (the others being The Pillars of the Earth and Killing Jesus).

Revival by Stephen King

Genre: Fiction, suspense, "horror"
Publication Date: November 2014
Setting: the life of Jamie Morton, America 1960s-2014

Young Jamie Morton meets and befriends his new minister Charlie Jacobs, a man with a happy family and an obsession with electricity. Something happens to Mr. Jacobs that causes him to lose the faith and focus all of his attention on electricity, convinced there exists a "secret electricity" that is beyond our world.

Meanwhile, Jamie becomes a semi-professional rhythm guitarist and hooks up with bands and eventually gets hooked on the big H. Just as he hits rock bottom, he comes across his old minister who is miraculously able to cure him of his addiction, for good. As we know, all that glitters is not gold, and this cure (along with Mr. Jacobs' other cures) has consequences.

After Jamie is cured he begins a real life, but still monitors his old minister and find that he is a traveling preacher who is curing people with his "secret electricity" around the country. Jamie researchers the cured to see if they display any after-effects and begins to doubt the authenticity and motives of "Pastor Danny." Of course Jacobs is curing for his own purposes (test subjects), but to what end? That's where Jamie comes in, to put an end to the after effects and the future test subjects and close the business of secret electricity once and for all. But if only things worked out they way we want them to. What is done cannot be undone and what is seen cannot be unseen. Something happens.

Finished reading: Friday, June 12, 2015

DD's rating: B-
A little unimpressed by this book from my favorite author. I love Stephen King so much because of his characters, and I just couldn't buy into Charlie Jacobs or Jamie Morton. This book also felt way too much like some of his other books (Under the Dome, Doctor Sleep, to name two), and therefore wasn't original enough. But his writing style can't be beat, and I was never bored (although I could sometimes predict what would happen).

Next read: Is Everyone Hanging out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling