Pet Sematary

The beginning was intriguing, the end was the best, the middle was tolerable.

For a ‘horror' book this book didn't actually seem to have that much horror in it. The end of it sure, the beginning some. The middle was more sad than creepy. And there was a lot of middle.

For those who know nothing of the plot (spoilers):

Louis Creed, his wife Rachel, daughter Ellie, son Gage, and cat Winston “Church” Churchill have just moved house. There's a path just off the house, heading towards the back, that leads to the ‘Pet Sematary' where children over the decades have buried their beloved pets. This is not the real cemetery that the book is about however. There is a second one behind this Pet Sematary. That one you don't, and shouldn't want to visit. We first see it shortly after Church dies when he is hit by a truck on the busy road in front of their house. Their neighbour, Jud, takes Louis and the cat to the cemetery beyond the sematary. Later that night Church comes back... kind of. He's not really the same old Church.
I quite enjoyed this part of the book and was intrigued to see what would happen next. Except not much did until the end of the book. Just talking, and reminiscing, and more talking. Which is why it probably took me so long to get through this book. I started it enthusiastically, then about half way through was just reading bits of it every now and then, until I got to the last few chapters and then got ‘back into it'. Frankly there was too much filler in this book for my tastes, and the tastes of most of my friends who have read it also.

Almost rated it 4 stars because I quite enjoyed the end, but could only overall rate it a 3.