Meghan’s Reviews > Four Past Midnight > Status Update

We’re onto the second short story in this collection called Secret Window, Secret Garden where King is back to writing about a writer. It feels a little too soon after the Dark Half, but we’ll see how it goes. So far, the lead up has been good; it’s fast-paced and creepy in a whodunit way. The interest has been piqued, can’t wait to see where this goes.

So now everyone can see these Langoliers and they’re creepy and fast, with little legs? The descriptions aren’t 100% there of what they’re supposed to look like, but the fact that they move fast, is. All of our characters are now running away from them but Craig might be the one who can stop and save them? 1 chapter left; how will it end?

What. The. Heck. Just happened?! Craig is crazy? Or are we being led to believe that? Dinah could be more than just a blind girl? Hmm some pieces may start falling into place. It’s nice to see we’re getting more background to this nightmare; the more we get, the creepier it is. It’s all very fast-paced and well told. The characters are also quite memorable, too.

We’ve got background on some of our surviving characters. It’s playing really well into the main story because it gives us a sense of who we’re working with. Craig is awful, but he has his reasons… and he’s the one who brings up the Langoliers and Dinah the blind girl who can sense more than others. There’s a lot at play the reader is terrified of what’s to come.

This has started off very gripping in the sense that our setting is a plane flying 36,000 feet in the air… and passengers on the plane have gone missing. We have a group of people who are still onboard, but no idea why they were chosen. This is frightful and suspenseful, which has gained the reader’s attention 100%!