I am not going to give more that two stars. If this was a 10 rating I would give 4 so...
Well what can I said?
This was written by Bachman (Stephen King) and while I enjoy more than some of King's own novels this was not a good novel.
First of all we follow a man that nowadays woke people would consider having toxic masculinity. Basically in the beginning we see him buying a gun and throwing his job under the bus. At home he and his wife become to distance themselves until she leaves home. His home is going to be demolished as his own own job site so a interstate could be built. But he just against it. Therefore he has nothing to lose and is in a path of self-destruction.
The comparisons to breaking bad are there because both have got much anger and nothing to lose so they go the extremes.
The second part of the novel, we see him dealing with his inner demons, probably something that explains the reason behind him behaving the reason he is behaving like that. And I believe this is the real good part. He and his wife had two Childs. One was dead inside the mother's belly and the other was killed by cancer. His wife dealt the way she knew (bear in mind that this was ten years before) but he never forgot or get over it.
My deduction is that his wife and him lived all their lives there; they had their children there and therefore destroying everything it was too much for him. He didn't want his wife to fall the same path so he alienates her going so far to divorce her. He also got together with a young teen and even left her some money (When he and her only got together one night). Maybe he saw in her his own child? I don't know... I Want to believe that he wanted to get her a chance in life - something his own children didn't had.
Enfin, the ending was a bit anti-climatic to be real and I was disappointed. Yeah basically that it. The story was a bit slow and you could cut 50 pages (as in all King's stories) and the ending was rushed.
Btw- what a misleading cover lol
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