My colleague recommended Mr. Mercedes to me, because she absoultely loved it and couldn´t put it down as soon as she started reading it. Unfortunately, I´m not feeling the same way about it and it´s defnitely not a book that I feel the urge to pick back up again.
I know that Stephen King can be a hit or miss for me and this book feels rather like a miss for me most of the time. And there are a few things about Kings writing style that are really bothering me:
1. The book is written in present tense and that´s the reason the writing feels off. The writing simply doesn´t feel right (I´m sorry that I can´t be any more specific than that).
2. King ends his chapters repeatedly in a foreshadowing way:
He leaves his house with no premonition that he won´t be back.
I´m not exactly sure why the author is telling me that. Instead of making me curious for what is going to happen next, I´m getting massively annoyed by something like this.
Maybe I should just DNF this book...
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