It's the end of October. (Okay, it ended yesterday. I forgot to post). The end of the month of witches, goblins, and ghouls, scary movies, and horror novels. This October, I decided to give the horror genre a try with Stephen King's Carrie. Carrie is about a girl with telekinetic powers triggered by stress and a crazy religious mother who is quite psychotic. In the novel, Carrie gets her period at 17. Her mother never told her anything about menstruation (apparently the school didn't either), which lead to a very embarrassing event during gym class. Carrie even grew up thinking that tampons were lipstick blotters. Anyway, throw in a prom, a contest for prom queen and king, a bucket a pigs blood, and a fire that destroys the town all on prom night, and you get Carrie.
I was disappointed that this particular example of "horror" was not as scary as I thought it would be. It wasn't terrifying, it was just dark. However, I was immersed in the story and read it pretty fast. I liked how King told the story from different POV's, and included segments of research papers and thesis about Carrie and here telekinetic energy within the novel to tell the story of the town as a whole.
I'd give it 4 out of 5 Coffee Beans, and because it wasn't scary I'll be giving it to my grandma to read as well.
Until the next book!
~Jessica
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