Fairy Tale
Readers rate it 3.9 (966 on Hardcover)
800 pages · Released Jun 25, 2024 · Simon and Schuster
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Fairy Tale is Stephen King's adult-crossover fantasy following a resilient teen navigating grief and discovering a portal to a dark parallel world. While the story emphasizes courage, responsibility, and compassion—particularly through Charlie's caregiving and his bond with a dog—King's trademark darker elements include moderate violence, some profanity, references to alcoholism, and sustained creepy/tense atmosphere. This is best suited for older teens comfortable with King's style rather than younger middle-grade readers.
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Master storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this #1 New York Times bestselling and spellbinding novel about a young man who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a reg... Master storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this #1 New York Times bestselling and spellbinding novel about a young man who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from that shed. Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.
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- Fiction
- Loveable Characters
- Strong Character Development
- A mix driven
- Diverse Characters
- Plot driven
- Not Diverse Characters
- Weak Character Development
- Unloveable Characters
- Character driven
- mysterious
- Adventurous
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ISBN 9781668052679 · Simon and Schuster