Finders Keepers
Jul. 17th, 2025 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I enjoyed Mr Mercedes by Stephen King so much, I was really looking forward to continuing with the Bill Hodges trilogy - the second books is Finders Keepers - but it didn't quite live up to my expectations.
The premise being about writers and unpublished writing appealed to me and I liked how the story unexpectedly connected to the case from the first book.
But it felt very dragged out, there were lengthy flashbacks detailing information that had already been revealed, and the characters I had been so looking forward to spending more time with - Hodges, Holly and Jerome - were barely in the first half, and only really got properly involved towards the end.
The bad guy was also rather a repeat of the bad guy from the first book - bad relationship with terrible mother, major superiority complex, wildly offensive attitudes to things - which was a bit tedious.
It did really pick up towards the end, though, with a very tense and exciting climax that had me shouting at my phone - and actually siding with the bad guy at one point!
And I liked how the epilogue mirrored the epilogue from book one.
I'm not sure how I feel about the introduction of hints of the supernatural - but I'm still keen to find out where the story is going overall, and I still think Will Patton is one of the best audiobook narrators around - so I'll definitely complete the trilogy.
The premise being about writers and unpublished writing appealed to me and I liked how the story unexpectedly connected to the case from the first book.
But it felt very dragged out, there were lengthy flashbacks detailing information that had already been revealed, and the characters I had been so looking forward to spending more time with - Hodges, Holly and Jerome - were barely in the first half, and only really got properly involved towards the end.
The bad guy was also rather a repeat of the bad guy from the first book - bad relationship with terrible mother, major superiority complex, wildly offensive attitudes to things - which was a bit tedious.
It did really pick up towards the end, though, with a very tense and exciting climax that had me shouting at my phone - and actually siding with the bad guy at one point!
And I liked how the epilogue mirrored the epilogue from book one.
I'm not sure how I feel about the introduction of hints of the supernatural - but I'm still keen to find out where the story is going overall, and I still think Will Patton is one of the best audiobook narrators around - so I'll definitely complete the trilogy.