Nightmares and Dreamscapes discussion

Hey hey, anyone else reading King's new book, Never Flinch? I just started so if anyone else wants to chat about the journey I'm all ears :) 50 pages in so far!

I'm waiting on it from Library.😊

I’ve read it last week

Everand also has the audiobook if anyone has a subscription, I think they also give a free trial for two weeks or something like that :)

https://www.everand.com/audiobook/866...

I've been sick so my reading has been slow the past few weeks, but I'm really enjoying the two separate story lines that are happening, curious how they will come together.

I've got this book on order.
Planning to join you soon.

Yay Michael glad to have you, I'm back to it too after finishing something else, so will be posting some back and forth with spoiler tags. King seems to write the bad guys bit sharper now and giving their personal view of what they do so clearly, it's interesting.

Page 50, Chapter 3, part 3 now but I just had dinner (Koji marinated broiled salmon, rice and garlicky string beans and lots of lemon on side) and about to read more.

I haven't had a chance to start this yet.
Are you going to continue the discussion after June 30, or close things out?

Started reading yesterday. Now at Page 79.
Like most King novels, it didn't take me long at all to become immersed in the story.
King is always great at characterization, and these are familiar characters so it happened even faster for me. I love Holly, and it sure feels like King does too.
One of the things I have noted about his books is that even though NEVER FLINCH is told in third person - it always feels like a narrator is speaking directly to me. A master storyteller.

Michael wrote: "Started reading yesterday. Now at Page 79.
Like most King novels, it didn't take me long at all to become immersed in the story.
King is always great at characterization, and these are familiar ..."

It really does feel like the narrator is talking to you, that's such an interesting point! I need to get back to reading, been so crazy how and I was cleaning out my outside so I can sit and read, hopefully this weekend :)

Michael wrote: "I haven't had a chance to start this yet.
Are you going to continue the discussion after June 30, or close things out?"

The discussion doesn't close, we can talk and ppl can join till the end of time, I've loved catching up to so many book threads of stuff I read later and seeing ppl chime in for months and years about a single book, so always open :)

Now at Page 115:
With the exception of THE OUTSIDER, I don't really consider the Holly Gibney novels to be horror (MR. MERCEDES, HOLLY). Same with NEVER FLINCH, at least so far.
To me, they are riveting crime novels, another genre that King is really good at because of his incredible way with depicting characters.
I like that NEVER FLINCH contains two different crimes/perpetrators to be solved/apprehended. That reminds me of many of Michael Connelly's Bosch novels. These keep me reading for the same reasons.

Yes it's definitely not horror but I like how you never know with King what he will write, he's like a lazy Susan of ideas, it just spins and lands on an unknown sometimes even in a series.

There are numerous and clever little hints and foreshadowing throughout this novel. I won't share them and spoil it; but I'm having fun detecting them.
There's an ironic twist on Page 318 that destroys any possible endings that I can guess/imagine. I'm excited to see how King wraps this up. Loving so many of these characters, and beginning to worry for several of them.

All finished! Here's my mostly spoiler-free review . . . . .

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Please put a link to your reviews in the comments here. I'm curious to see what others thought - - or just leave those opinions in our chat group.

Michael I love your comments on here, thank you for showing up apologies I'm behind!

Michael wrote: "All finished! Here's my mostly spoiler-free review . . . . .

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Please put a link to your reviews in the comments here. I'm curious to see what other..."

Ahh off to read it now :D