Stephen King, Lisey’s Story

One of King's less known novels but a real gem!! You find yourself going on the journey with Lisey and Scott, and by the end I was almost in tears!! Very emotional book and very terrifying as well. I wouldn't say it was a "horror" book but it has very scary elements, and the "Long boy with the endless piebald side" has to be (in my opinion) the scariest King invention since Pennywise the clown!!

Lisey suffers the loss of her husband Scott, a famous author, a man she loved but a man who leaves her with questions that need answering a puzzle that needs solving and an aching heart that needs soothing.

Two years on Lisey finally has the courage to clear out Scott's study and as she does so she finds herself spiraled into a world of danger, pain, confusion but also answers.

Is Lisey strong enough without Scott by her side to delve into the unknown and find those missing pieces to the puzzle that she so seeks?

King cleverly brings together a very sensitive and emotional love story entertwined with a haunting horror of a read! With plenty of twists and turns!

This is no light read so get prepared to concentrate and be patient! You will be glad that you did!

Lisey's Story

Stephen King

Scribner, October 2006, $28.00

ISBN: 0743289412

Two years have passed since Lisey Landon's husband Scott died. While she mourned her loss and found an emptiness and loneliness with his demise, the outside world never gave her a moment of peace. Everyone from college professors to paparazzi to collectors pulled stunts to get the grieving widow to acquiesce to their demands to allow them to catalogue his papers and publish his final manuscripts. Scott was a rarity, as an extremely popular author with strong critical acclaim. The last intruder threatened to harm her if she failed to give him access.

Sick of everyone, Lisey decides peace will only come if she chooses to donate her beloved late spouse's papers to a reputable archival library. She begins to organize his work, while someone increases the threats to physically hurt her. Though frightened, Lisey hears Scott's voice advising her to go to the dark place where he and his dead brother used to escape to hide from their psychopathic father, and where he as an adult found his muse. She trusts his love for her and ventures to this dark place where beauty and horror reside side by side as Scott's demons dominate, but here in Boo'ya Moon, her demons surface to destroy her if she lets them.

This is a haunting love story that is part psychological horror and part parable, as Stephen King is at his best with the dangers of traveling through the darkness of the mind to reach a personal enlightenment. Readers see first hand what disturbed Scott and how he dealt with his nightmares, as well as Lisey's fears and strengths. While there is real potential harm from those making demands of Lisey, the most dangerous and ironically loveliest place in the world is the imagination. Mr. King is the king with this terrific touching tale.