Bag of Bones
Ratings90
Average rating3.5
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Ratings90
Average rating3.5
WHEN MIKE NOONAN'S WIFE DIES UNEXPECTEDLY the bestselling author suffers from writer's block. until he is drawn to his summer home, the beautiful lakeside retreat called Sara Laughs.
Here, Mike finds the once familiar town in the tyrannical grip of millionaire Max Devore. Devore is hellbent on getting custody of his deceased son's daughter and is twisting the fabric of the community to this purpose.
Three-year-old Kyra and her young mother turn to Mike for help. And Mike finds them increasingly irresistible.
But there are other more sinister forces at 'Sara Laughs. Kyra can feel them too
--back cover
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This book has easily shot to the top of my favourites list. My heart hurts. I didn't want it to be over, but what a story.
This was a fairly enjoyable ghost story, but like a lot of stuff from King's middle period, it just feels bloated. You could probably have cut 200 pages worth of story out of this and still had a complete, enjoyable novel.
The story is about a 40ish writer who loses his wife and goes to their summer house to stay for a while. He meets a young woman and her child and gets involved in her fight to keep her child from her husband's father who is very rich. Along the way he deals with some ghosts but he is not sure who they are. Is it his wife, Sara or some other entity? I had a hard time stopping listening to this. It is read by Stephen King and he does a great job with it. Some authors cannot read their own work and do it justice but he can.
