Thursday, 4 June 2026

The Outsider by Stephen King










Started: 31.5.26

Finished: 4/6/26

Paperback


At last, a Stephen King book that I've actually enjoyed and finished! At 475 pages it's by no means one of his chunkiest ones, but it's still taken me quite a while to get through; it possibly dragged in places and could've been a bit shorter.

It starts out as a pretty straightforward crime thriller, but soon takes a turn into the weird when the main suspect appears to have been in two places at the same time. I really couldn't guess how this was going to work out; in the end, I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it either.

I didn't realise that this book featured a recurring character from an earlier trilogy. There were a few references to the events in those books, probably not enough to spoil them for me (if and when I ever get around to reading them), but it was still a little frustrating.