Horizon Road

Under the Dome is another example of why I hope Stephen King will never stop writing. It is more than 1000 pages long, but manages to keep you on the edge of your seat throughout the story. Have you ever seen one of those movies where the best part is the fifteen minute intense chase scene somewhere in the middle? Well this book would be like that except instead of the intense chase scene only lasting a few minutes in the middle of the movie, it lasts the entire movie from beginning to end.

The story in this book is not actually the story. The story is about a town and how its residence handle the story. The actual concept of the story plays a very little part in the book, other than the fact that it has put the residence in a predicament that becomes the real story. The initial concept is the cause and the escape, the beginning and the end. But for the 1000 pages in the middle, the story is about the people of the affected town. By the end of the book, you really don’t care if the cause was alien or government experiment or whatever. What you care about are the people. Few writers do this as well as Stephen King. This story has you routing for the good guys and despising the bad guys and almost forgetting about how they got into this situation to begin with, that beginning and end that gave purpose for the story, because the real story is of the people in the town.

This is a must read for old King fans and anyone interested in becoming a King fan, or anyone that simply enjoys reading a very good and intense fiction book, so I won’t go into the story because I don’t want to spoil it for those that don’t read it as soon as it is released, as I do for anything Stephen King writes. All I will say is that this is one of Kings really good ones. I enjoyed every minute of it…time well spent.

My rating is 4.9 out of 5 stars.