Book: The Regulators
Author: Stephen King
Pages: 512
This is my 4th book of the year
What Amazon Says:\
It's a summer afternoon in Wentworth, Ohio, and on Poplar Street everything's normal. The paper boy is making his rounds; the Carver kids are bickering at the corner convenience store; a Frisbee is flying on the Reed's lawn; Gary Soderson is firing up the backyard barbecue. The only thing that doesn't quite fit is the red van idling just up the hill. Soon in will begin to roll, and the killing will begin. A quiet slice of American suburbia is about to turn to toast. The mayhem rages around a seemingly still point, a darkened house lit fitfully from within a flickering television screen. Inside, where things haven't been normal for a long time, are Audrey Wyler and the autistic nephew she cares for, 8 year old Seth Garin. They're fighting their own battle, and its intensity has turned 247 Poplar Street into a prison house. By the time night falls on Poplar Street, the surviving residents will find themselves in another world, one where anything, no matter how terrible, is possible - and where the regulators are on their way. By what power they have come, how far they will go, and how they can be stopped - these are the desperate questions. The answers are absolutely terrifying.
This was a pretty good book. It is Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman. This is a companion novel to a previous novel named Desperation. Same characters reimagined with the same antagonist. This is a solid King story (it is one of his older novels) - with a lot of gore right out of the gate. The story develops well, and it runs about typical length of a King novel. Were there some slow spots? Of course. But overall, a good read.
Stars: 3.5
