Stephen King: Duma Key review

I got to admit: Stephen King is one of my all time favourites. I had a phase when I read most of his works, but since then it has been slowed down, until I read the Dark Tower series. Magnificent.

Now I got a chance to read some of his new, more typical material, which naturally means a good horror story.

Duma Key tells a story of Edgar Freemantle, who has just gone through a very bad accident, in which he hurt his leg and lost his right arm. The accident almost destroyed him and ended his marriage and now he's taking one step of a time and starting everything over in a small place called Duma Key in Florida. Now he has time to devote for art and painting, which he always liked to do but never realised he could do so well.
Edgar meets new people and starts to build his life again but something else is also building up in Duma Key and it seems like Edgar's new painting abilities have something to do with it...

This book is a good story of a man in his healing process, a man of special talent. The story itself is so interesting that it sucks you straight in and won't let go until you've reach the final pages.
The horror aspect comes to the plot quite late, but it sure gave me shivers. King hasn't failed yet.
You can hear King's voice from the pages, but it's not a bad thing, if you enjoy his style of narrating.

Duma Key is much more than just a horror novel, but you have to experience it yourself.

The only problem with the book was that I got that annoying song "Dragostea din tei" stuck in my head because of the name.

"Duma duma duma key"...

/ [Caterin S.]

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