Bag Of Bones by Stephen King: Book Review

Bag Of Bones by Stephen King: Book Review 

(Reviewed During Covid - Aug 24 2020)

The best thing about "Bag of Bones" is the number of threads King is able to carry in parallel which makes for a very engrossing read. 500 + pages just zipped by in 3 days.

The book begins with Mike Noonan, a reasonably successful writer losing his wife to a brain aneurysm that destroys his world. The way King writes about this loss for the first 100 odd pages is touching and again truly shows why he is so much more than a "horror" writer.

Then there is the writing process and publishing plus agent network that again he describes beautifully. No one (in my opinion) writes about writers and the process like this guy does. (Check his book "On Writing").

Eventually the loss is too much for Noonan to bear and he finally hits the dreaded "writers block". This prompts him to move to his lakeside house delightfully named 'Sara Laughs' which is where the plot actually begins.

Beneath its multiple layers 'Bag of Bones' is an old school ghost story (at times with major Victorian vibes). In the end all the threads tie up pretty well and like many of his books do, leaves you with a small trace of hope. And in times such as these that is perhaps what we need.