Until the day she needs Jamie’s talents for herself. Jamie’s single mom Tia knows about his “gift” but isn’t happy about it. When people die, their ghosts hang around for a few days before moving on, and during that time, Jamie is able to ask them questions and get truthful answers, because the dead cannot lie. Jamie has a special ability: he can see the newly dead. Twenty-two year old Jamie Conklin narrates the story, told over a period of about eleven years as he looks back on his unusual life, starting when he’s about four and ending when he’s fifteen. King’s writing pulls me in every time, and this is one of those books where you can’t put it down, at least I couldn’t. This is a fairly short book at under three hundred pages, and yet the pacing and overall story arc were simply perfect. Lateris published by Hard Case Crime, and although there are speculative elements, it fits perfectly with the publisher’s hardboiled crime sensibility. You would think by now King would start to run out of story ideas, but there’s no evidence of that here. This is the first time I’ve reviewed a new Stephen King book on this blog, can you believe it? I read Later over the course of a day, something I rarely get to do, and it was such a great immersive experience. The nitty-gritty: King blends horror and crime into a fast-paced thriller, with a good balance of creep, humor and emotion. Published by Hard Case Crime on March 2 2021
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