Finders Keepers

Not quite as good as the first book of the trilogy, but I do think King had some good ideas with this one. The tone of Finders Keeper is a lot more tame, and it's slow to get going. In this one a kid finds a bunch of belongings of a now-deceased author and trouble comes looking for him.

In the first book, the reader is driven head-first into a murder spree and it's up to Bill Hodges to stop the killer from doing it again. In this one, it's more of an unknown what's going on and what's going to happen. Think of this one as more of a No Country for Old Men type story whereas the first was more Silence of the Lambs.

I do applaud King for trying something different here. It wasn't expertly executed, but he does sometimes fail to stray too far from the course. A lot of longtime readers may have been turned off from that, but I was not.