> No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. I think Duma Key is the best King’s written over the past few years, a return to the great novels he wrote in the past.HTML: Winner of the 2009 Audie Award for Fictionĭon't miss the thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King about what happens when the barrier between our world and that of the supernatural is breached. Duma Key is a good old-style horror novel with ghost and crazy shit going on. However, I did look this up on the internet and there are a lot of alleged cases of similar things happening. I felt quite sceptical about Edgar suddenly becoming psychic because he lost his arm. A writer as good as King could have come up with something better. Other than that the title serves no purpose. It’s the name of the part of Florida where the novel is set and is an actual place. LOWLIGHTS: I hate the title of the novel. Who doesn’t love novels about an evil spirit who comes to life in the form of a doll? There were some chilly moments in Duma Key.

I loved the scene towards the end of Duma Key when Edgar, Wireman and Jack go to the house Elizabeth grew up in to drown Perse back to sleep. This was a nice way of adding backstory without making it dull and boring. I liked the little flashback’s to Elizabeth’s past in the sections sub-headed ‘how to draw a picture’. Duma Key reminded me in some way of King’s story, The Road Virus Heads North about a painting that comes to life. I really enjoyed the descriptions of his painting’s and the show at the gallery. I was fascinated by Edgar skill as a painter developing. I never felt there were too many characters. There are a lot, and I mean a lot of characters in Duma Key, minor and major.

HIGHLIGHTS: One again King does a great job with characterisation.

Secrets of children lost in the undertow, of a ghost ship riding the distant horizon – and a family’s buried past reaching long hands into the present… And as he paints, the island’s secrets begin to stir. When Edgar Freemantle moves to the remote island of Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn’t expect to find much there.īut Duma has been waiting for him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had.Įdgar Freemantle begins to paint.

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