The Witch Elm

Where do I begin? I hated this book, to put it plainly. I had the murderer figured out before I knew who was murdered, which is understandable as this book is about 250 pages longer than necessary. I always know I'm going to dislike a book if Stephen King has given it any sort of accolade. (His plots are decent, but his writing is wack. Fight me.) The main character had no depth, he was just a self-involved asshole, and his girlfriend was the typical delicate waif that reacts perfectly to everything main character douche-lord says or does for their 3 year relationship. The murder reveal and burglar reveal was as anti-climactic as it could be, not to mention the information dump that was the last chapter. I'm just woefully unimpressed with this book. Seemingly endless tedium.