Stephen King’s horror Doctor Sleep is only pleasant


‘He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes’ – Narrator



The second instalment of the Shining written by King lacks horror as much as the first but is a much more pleasant read.

 In Doctor Sleep Dan Torrance struggles to find his place in life and is caught off guard when he becomes connected to Abra Stone, a young girl with the shining.

The book spends a lot of time following Dan as he uses the wrong methods to cope with what his father has done even decades later and consequently is unable to settle down. This novel gives Dan the voice that he didn’t have in The Shining due to his age, so it is interesting to see how he has developed.

King writes about both Dan and Abra at points in their lives when they are finding themselves which makes the book a page turner as you become invested in each character’s journey. Suspense is then added to this by the threat of the True Knot.

As the element of the True Knot becomes more prevalent in the novel the book slightly begins to lend itself to the genre of thriller, especially as the chosen ones – Lodsam hanti- are seemingly invincible, but I don’t feel Doctor Sleep can be categorised as a horror. Doctor Sleep and The Shining, I feel, would be better presented as fantasy books as the aspect of the shining and the True Knot easily lend themselves to fantasy. The strong fantasy element makes me see the appeal of the story for the silver screen, with the film adaption expected in November of 2019.


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