Finished Salem's Lot

So I finished Salem's Lot, and I can't say too much about it because that would spoil the book if you read it. I thought it was pretty good, but had a good ending that wrapped everything up while still one of those endings that is like a new beginning.

The good stuff that I thought was in the book was it had a pretty unpredictable plot, unlike some books or movies that I've read, and it has a lot of aspects and stories that all basically come together in the story. Another good thing Stephen King does in the book is making the characters actual people, not just heroes that can't do anything wrong, they make mistakes and mess up quite often, so I thought that was real and good.

Some bad stuff is that certain scenes were pretty predictable and one character that he didn't really make you understand was the main bad guy, which I think would have added to the story. Those are really the only things that I thought would have improved the story, but like I said, a pretty good book overall.



I started another newer book by Dean Koontz, called Innocence. It is about this guy who looks weird for some reason and makes people hate him when they see him. I know, kind of weird but we'll see what happens. He has this underground place where he lives that's attached to the sewer system so he can sneak around the city, which hasn't been named yet.

I think that Dean Koontz has done a good job so far of characterizing the main character by having it narrated from his point of view and I think this book will have very few characters due to how reclusive the main character is.

I think that having few characters will allow the author to really get the chance to show the reader what each of the characters' point of views are and what they think about other characters and will do this to help you infer what each character's reactions will be to whatever happens throughout the story.