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Rated Pet Sematary 4/10

Was gonna go two stars just because I love the author so much, but this is the worst Stephen King book I've ever read. Dumb characters, ridiculous plot, poorly paced. I just hated it. <br/><br/>The passages about grief were very well written. And the first third of the book was pretty solid, if slow. <br/><br/>::SPOILER::<br/>But I could never wrap my head around Jud's motivation for getting all the business with the sematary started in the first place. He knew the place was evil and the things brought back from the dead came back wrong. Yet he leads the charge to resurrect Church. King alludes to the forces in burial grounds compelling Jud to act, but I don't think he ever sold it. And without this initial motivation cemented in my imagination, the rest of the story fell apart for me. Not to mention the big bad villains of the piece are a house cat and a two year old. It just didn't work for me. At all.<br/>::END SPOILER::<br/><br/>All that said, I think a sequel starring grown up Ellie Creed (great name!) would be pretty damned interesting.

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Published 2026-01-02 18:49 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere