I'm trying to steer clear of spoilers generally here.
It is obvious fairly early on that, for a number of reasons, Revival is dividing opinions among SK's regular readership, and one of the reasons for this appears to be that many see it as non-typical King work. One comment says "Where is the horror?" (personally, I felt that the climactic sequence was fairly straightforward horror stuff, but however).
My question is more to do with whether SK, who undoubtedly started out as a horror writer, left that genre behind years ago, notwithstanding visits home from time to time.
What is typical King? What do we expect from him, and did Revivial meet expectations or not? I have ideas, but I'd be interested to hear from others first.
It is obvious fairly early on that, for a number of reasons, Revival is dividing opinions among SK's regular readership, and one of the reasons for this appears to be that many see it as non-typical King work. One comment says "Where is the horror?" (personally, I felt that the climactic sequence was fairly straightforward horror stuff, but however).
My question is more to do with whether SK, who undoubtedly started out as a horror writer, left that genre behind years ago, notwithstanding visits home from time to time.
What is typical King? What do we expect from him, and did Revivial meet expectations or not? I have ideas, but I'd be interested to hear from others first.