Welp, I can see why Stephen King pulled this from being published further.

I don’t think the topic of a school shooting is off limits for a novel, that being said it needs to be done carefully. I will take into account the time of release, when it wasn’t so common place, which is sad to have to write at all.

My biggest gripe is the characters. For a bunch of young people that are being held hostage in a school, by a fellow classmate, they don’t really act like people. I know stress does some wild things to people but they’re all just sitting around laughing? You only have one character that is rivalling the main character? It just felt super out of place.

It definitely has a breakfast club feeling, misfit students telling tales. Just tonally felt so weird in comparison to the setting.

Completely taking the plot out of the equation, I think it might be the worst written King book I’ve read.