Stephen King’s Doctor
Sleep was published in 2013. It is a
sequel to The Shining and it follows the character of Danny Torrance—now called
Dan—who works in a hospice and uses his psychic gift to comfort dying
patients. Dan has followed in his
father’s footsteps in that he has become an alcoholic, but when he relocates
and begins working at the hospice, he stops drinking.
Abra Stone is a little girl who has an
extremely powerful psychic gift—stronger than Dan’s—and she unintentionally
forms a bond with him that grows as she gets older. Abra’s gift puts her on the radar of the True
Knot, a wandering group of quasi-immortals led by Rose the Hat who feed on the
essence of individuals with psychic powers.
The essence is called “steam” and Rose the Hat is convinced that she can
kidnap Abra and she and the Knot can feed off of what she considers to be an
unlimited supply of Abra’s steam. Shenanigans
ensue.
As I’ve said before, I’m a SK stan and for the most part, I
love his work. Doctor Sleep is no different.
I read it on a train ride to Beijing in 2014. It’s a fast read and an engaging story. King said in his notes about the novel that he
got the idea of the True Knot—a very nasty group of individuals—from being on
the road and seeing a procession of RVs at random points on the trip. That stuck with me. When I come home during the summer, I go on
road trips and ever since reading Doctor
Sleep, I’m wary of any RV I see. Seeing a group of them traveling the interstate I’m on makes me outright
nervous. If I see a cluster of RVs at a
rest stop, I keep on driving whether or not I need to stop. I’m not psychic and I don’t believe I possess
any gifts that would be of interest to anyone, least of all psychic vampires,
but I’m not about to take that chance.
Love this book. Check
it out.
Wow! what a retard I am. I hit the sign out button instead of the publish button.
ReplyDeleteGirl I've done that!
DeleteStop being paranoid. HAHAHA!!!
ReplyDeleteLast night the electricity came off. I was sitting in my bedroom and I could see all the way into the kitchen. It felt real creepy to me because of the moonlight shining through the window. I never closed my bedroom door so fast.