Book Review of Revival by Stephen King
If you're looking for a good
scare, Revival by Stephen King isn't the place to find it.
However, King is still the master at character development, and
Revival most certainly delivers in this area. To be honest,
it's not really fair to expect King to keep readers up at night with
every single book he hammers out. My guess is that when it came to
Revival, King's aim was to write something unsettling without
all the terror that usually permeates his books.
Revival is about a
character named Jamie Morton who develops a friendship with Charles
Jacobs, a preacher and new-age healer. Jacobs not only preaches
about the miracles performed by Jesus, he pulls off a few himself
using a strange form of electricity. The story begins when Jamie is
just an impressionable young boy and continues into his adulthood
when he looks to Jacobs to help him kick a heroin addiction.
The story goes on to reveal
how Jacobs healed numerous other people, mostly in a carnival
setting. As payment for helping him recover from his heroin habit,
Jamie helps his former preacher get new believers to undergo
controversial healing methods. While the treatments are successful,
many of the patients suffer terrible side effects.
Jamie moves on after
repaying his debt to Reverend Jacobs, but is still bothered by the
way some people are affected by this healing method. Jamie decides
to confront Jacobs, only to lured into another healing session with a
girlfriend from his youth. I won't spoil the end other than to say
it does have a dramatic conclusion.
Revival may not have
been my favorite book by Stephen King, but I did like it. As always,
King is King when it comes to spinning a good yarn
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I am awarding Revival
three out of five stars on
Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4673038.Adele_Park
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