"Susan felt a real stab of anger and was dismayed by it. She thought thatshe and her mother had weathered the last of the adolescent storms and even the aftersqualls, but here it all was. They took up the ancient arguments of her identity versus her mother’s experience and beliefs like an old piece of knitting."
BOOK : Salem's Lot
AUTHOR: #stephenking
RATING:4.6🧛♂️
Finally finished this book, it takes a lot of patience and a love for reading, to read to all the backstory to get into the main events, stephen king is known to write deep and with alot of characters, even when he have strong protagonists in his stories. A strong protagonist is not enough to write an amazing horror thriller, an even stronger antagonist is required to do so. And here, stephen king have just given a modern version of bram strokers dracula, with a much blood-lusty destructive motive.
The story when you visualise in your mind would make an amazing movie filled with thrill and gore. Ben Mears and Susan Norton are in love, ben is a writer who is admired by many including susan and he has got a past. Susan who was in a relationship with a man named floyid tibbits have now found the kind of love that thrilled her with Ben. Ben who has lived in Salem's Lot from the age of 5 -9 , knew deep within the darkness in salem's Lot specially the one that loomed around hitman Hubie Marsten's house , The Marsten House. During the time Ben came to town a child disappears, his brother dies and a new furniture shop opens in Salem's Lot and the business owners chose to buy The Marsten House. Then starts a series of crazy events which the people of Salem's Lot have to silently witness in horror.
Kurt Barlow, is a powerful vampire antagonist that completes the book giving the book a purpose to be written of the first place.
My takeaway from this horror fiction is that "The villain(s) of our story makes us stronger than we are". Isn't it?
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