By Stephen King
Date Read: 15 June 2011
Official Summary
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra’s struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here—and what do they want of Mike Noonan?
It is no secret that King is one of our most mesmerizing storytellers. In Bag of Bones, he proves to be one of our most moving as well.
My thoughts:
Every time I finish a Stephen King book, I am convinced that there cannot be anything better. Bag of Bones included a wide range of scaries – death, rape, racism, haunted houses and ghosts. It also focused on a parent’s love for a child and the bond shared by husband and wife. This book covered such a wide range it was slow going as I tried to keep up. But oh boy, it was amazing! I am so hooked on Stephen King at the moment I am finding it difficult to read anything else.
