Fairy Tale

Typical Stephen King coming of age story, about a boy, who is too nice and too smart for his age, and an old man, who reluctantly becomes his mentor.

So the first part of this book is really good, where we meet the characters, and we understand that the old man is hiding a secret about gold and monsters, and that he may be older than he seems. So we follow the boy as he helps the old man and discover a portal to a new world. In this new world there is a fountain of youth, that he wants to use to put his dog on it. So it is a quest to another world to save his dog.

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So he does it, he saves her. But when he is trying to leave, he gets capture and is put on jail. Since that moment the story falls very flat. The story stops being just him and his dog, but there is a prophecy of the prince from another world, a revolution and oppressed town people. And I didn't like it. There are like 10 other characters in jail with him, and they have to fight till death and only one will survive. But I didn't care about any other characters, they'll just die and nothings happens. Then they just escaped and kill the Giant with one bullet. And, I don't remember the end, it was anticlimactic.

He comes back home, after months missing, and seals the portal so no one can come through again.