Mr Mercedes
Jun. 13th, 2025 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI recently reread Mr Mercedes by Stephen King, as part of my Reviews Revisited series on my YouTube channel, not really remembering much about it before embarking - and I really enjoyed it!
I think listening to the audiobook helped because it's got one of my favourite audiobook narrators, who is very well suited to the material. Stephen King really knows how to write a story, and Will Patton really knows how to narrate one!
It's about a retired detective trying to bring to justice a mass killer who was part of one of his last cases, but it's not a 'whodunnit' but rather a 'how will they catch him' because we get the killer's POV from near the start so the reader knows who he is all along.
It's pretty unpleasant in places, but not so much as to be really off-putting - and the plot, pacing and tension are all really good. I liked the range of characters, particularly the two the detective recruits to help him in the second half.
I really wasn't expecting to enjoy this as much as I did - and I'm definitely going to carry on with the series.
I think listening to the audiobook helped because it's got one of my favourite audiobook narrators, who is very well suited to the material. Stephen King really knows how to write a story, and Will Patton really knows how to narrate one!
It's about a retired detective trying to bring to justice a mass killer who was part of one of his last cases, but it's not a 'whodunnit' but rather a 'how will they catch him' because we get the killer's POV from near the start so the reader knows who he is all along.
It's pretty unpleasant in places, but not so much as to be really off-putting - and the plot, pacing and tension are all really good. I liked the range of characters, particularly the two the detective recruits to help him in the second half.
I really wasn't expecting to enjoy this as much as I did - and I'm definitely going to carry on with the series.
