Billy Summers

Well, that took a while, didn't it?
As you can see it took me about forever to finish this, so I need to come clean: I rarely watch crime movies or series, and haven't read a whole lot of crime in my life; same with war, whether it's WWII, Vietnam, civil wars, or whatever. Those are just topics that don't interest me, and those are mostly what this book is about. Again, King is a good writer, but the subjects are just blah to me.
At the halfway point it got a little better, not much though, and there were a few instances where the story seemed to be picking up, only for it to be bogged down again.
Also, in the first half of the book there were so many characters introduced that I lost track of who was who. That got better around the halfway point, too, but there'd still been too many characters with no real bearing on the story.
So, 1½ stars, rounded up to 2.