Book: Lisey's Story

 Book: Lisey's Story

Author: Stephen King

Pages: 544

This is my 136th read for the year

This is the story of Lisey (Lee-see).  Her husband has been gone for two years and she is still grieving.  Scott - her husband - was an award winning author, and now someone wants his left over papers.  As Lisey sorts through them, she recalls her life with Scott and the time he got shot and almost died.  Also she and her sisters have to try and help their eldest sister, Amanda who has had a mental breakdown and is locked in her own mind.  Amanda and Scott were close and Lisey is going to do everything she can to bring Amanda around so they can fight the person who is trying to hurt Lisey and get Scott's legacy.

This was a pretty good book.  I listened to this one and it was entertaining.  It is an interesting mix of love story, lost love, family tragedy, and ghost story.  I didn't find it overly haunting, but it has a lot of twists and turns due to the back and forth between past and present.  Lisa was a well developed character - you could feel the love she had for her huband through her memories.  I did find that I had to really follow this one - if you are an audiobook listener who tends to wander while listening, then don't listen to this one.  One negative - the strange "pretend swearing" that Lisey does throughout this story was a little off putting.  She had a lot of made up words for swear words and I just found it odd.  Not good or bad - just odd.

Overall good story.  I watched the miniseries on Apple TV and it stuck pretty close to the book. (as far as overall plot)

Stars: 4