This was an entertaining story. Certainly not King's masterpiece but one that kept you reading. Jamie Conklin can see the dead, he doesn't know his father, his mum is a literary agent, her friend, she later separates from is a cop, they form a kind of lesbian relationship, there is reference to Dracula and Dickens' Scrooge, we later hear about the ritual of Chüd, it's about drugs and we solve the ultimate secret from Jamie's past. I liked the references to many famous horror flics (Final Destina...

Stephen King's writing is like coming home for me. There's no doubt, it's my comfort zone. This story is no exception. A coming-of-age tale with a supernatural twist, Later follows Jamie and his struggling single-mother, Tia.Jamie first discovered his ability when he was just a young boy. He can see things others can't and sometimes it's really scary.But it is an unchangeable part of himself and he learns the rules of it, as well as how best to live with it.His mother knows what he can do, but s...

My granny got me hooked on Stephen King when I was young. I wish she was still here for this one. Couldn't put it down.

Powerful characters and plentiful scares! Death is always a factor in King novels, but now that he’s writing later in life, it’s become more profound. What it means to live, what it means to die, and what might be waiting in the great beyond was expertly handled in an almost heavenly sense with his feel-good novel Elevation (2018). But if Elevation made you think of Heaven, Later will have you picturing Hell.The scariest thing is its believability. King’s imagination has predicted the future all...

My nearly 20 years long waiting is over! Finally some fascinating King book is written in his old style released and made my quirky, loyal fan brain cells dance! As like they say: better late than never ( for this book: better “Later” than his last published books ) Our MC Jamie Conklin is only thirteen years old kid, who is soooo lovely, smart, perceptive, a great son, mature for his own age and has great sense of humor ( he might have inherited King’s dark sense of humor and that’s totally fi...

Some gifts given are more of a curse than a superpower, although it highly depends on what one makes out of it. Did you hear that too?Ah, fine to see the good old trope of (view spoiler)[being the only one able to see, speak with, and lie detector the dead (hide spoiler)] masterfully executed by the King himself. I can´t say how often one experiences this concept in action, but by mixing the emotional with the paranormal frightening, the master fully lives up to the expectations readers have of

I’m a long-time Stephen King fan and have read nearly everything he’s written. When I heard the details of this novel, it immediately reminded me of “Joyland.” This is another hard crime novel by King and also published by Titan under the ‘Hard Case Crime’ imprint. Well, I loved “Joyland” and so my expectations went high on this one. For me, if you considered “Joyland” a home run, like I did, “Later” is a triple, which slid in just under the tag (baseball’s opening day was yesterday). I really e...

Let’s talk about Uncle Stevie’s latest, Later, shall we? Later is the third Stephen King novel published by the Hard Case Crime imprint. In HCC’s early days, the founder reached out to him (via his accountant) with a hope and a prayer that he would provide a supportive blurb for their mission to resuscitate the genre of old school pulp-style crime fiction novels. Months passed, and King’s agent eventually got in touch to say he didn’t want to write a blurb for them… he wanted to write a book. Th...

Yes! To ALL of this book! I'm a life-long SK fan and if he writes it, I will happily read it. There's been a few tiny bumps along the way but not with this book. 𝘓𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 is total yummy Kingness! "𝙄𝙩 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚, 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙙𝙤. 𝙎𝙤 𝙬𝙚𝙞𝙧𝙙. 𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣'𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙤𝙪𝙩?" 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙛 𝙞𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙪𝙥 𝙖𝙩 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙜𝙤 𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣'𝙩 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧. 𝙄 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙣𝙤. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣

Loved this one, couldn’t put it down. Great premise, great writing craft as always. Anytime there is a premise that sparks my imagination and I can easily see other storylines—endless storylines it’s a book I want to stay with and see what happens. I hope King does follow up with other books similar to this one. Loved it.In most of my reviews I tout the voice as being the most important, The Fictive Dream, and that I want to be immersed in the story deep enough where my world falls away and I’m

This was cray 😜 and I loved it!! “So yeah, I see dead people. As far as I can remember, I always have. But it’s not like in that movie with Bruce Willis.” Jamie Conklin sees the dead, only for a few days before they disappear and only in places they lived or loved. On the down side they look exactly as they did when they died, or were murdered. Usually it isn’t a big deal. It just...is. Until someone finds out about Jamie’s unique ability and tries to use it to their advantage. This is a horror...

Jamie recalls that he was just a toddler the first time his unnatural ability reared its head; in this, his story, he recounts the main situations his ability got him into in is youth. This is another very good piece of suspenseful crime fiction from Mr King who appears to be determined to leave his mark in this genre! With a plethora of reviews of this book around at the moment, I think I'll just comment on what I specifically liked: In my half a lifetime of reading I don't think I've ever read...

If you identify as a Constant Reader, you approach a new King book with a personal reading journey decades in the making. Your first one. Your favorite one. The one that made you fall in love. The one that broke your heart. The book you tell everyone is the worst. The last one you read. The one you’ve read the most. The Top Ten. The Bottom Five. Sometimes I feel like Constant Readers are the saltiest Stephen King fans there are. We certainly can be the hardest to please. *Raising my hand*When we...

Audiobook.... .....read by Seth NumrichSeth was FANTASTIC....We meet Jamie Conklin, a literary agent kid. Smart, sensitive, observant, and....see’s dead people ; but not like the Bruce Willis movie.Jamie is adorably lovable. I mean he believed ‘Goldie Locks’ was a real girl as a kid, for goodness sake. Ha....Jamie was smart enough to know the bears weren’t real. Jamie’s relationship with his mom, Tia, is totally endearing, too. And....I only got ‘scared’ once ....In some ways this book reminded

I've enjoyed reading Stephen King’s books since I was a teenager. Hell, his books are part of the reason I became a life long reader. That's not to say I love all of his books, he's certainly had his misses (Oh Tommyknockers, I'm not sure if I'll ever finish you, but I'll always leave to marked where I left off just in case). I honestly wasn't that interested in this one. I picked it up entirely because I have this compulsion that I buy all of King's new books even if it's just to save them for

3.5 starsI made a reading vlog dedicated to this book which you can see here: https://youtu.be/JEGEo8b7k1w

"Get busy living or get busy dying." - Stephen KingStephen King has done it again!Jamie Conklin just wants a normal life. He is the son of a struggling single mother trying to pay the bills which includes paying for the care facility his uncle is in. He is a good kid but has a special "gift". He can see and speak to the recently deceased. Is this a gift or a curse? This is Stephen King after all, and it is as he writes "a horror story". Stephen King can spin a yarn and he does so in this paranor...

He's my favourite author, but I'm certainly not going to be bias here.I found this one very predictable and repetitive. When I finished it, I felt like it was incomplete and sloppy.It's basically a short story padded out into a short novel with thin characters and plot.(My 56th book I've read of his and this is the 2nd one I've not enjoyed, can't like them all but 2 books out of 56 is good going)Bring on Billy Summers!!!

Jamie Conklin, narrator of this novel: “So yeah, I see dead people. As far as I can remember, I always have. But it’s not like in that movie with Bruce Willis.”Me, reading those lines: “Okay, but it’s pretty much exactly like that movie.”So seeing dead people is Jamie’s “unnatural ability” that is hinted at in the Goodreads description of this novel. I’m not sure why it’s only hinted at, as the revelation comes in the first few pages, along with the two facts that do, all jokes aside, make the “...