The Author’s Note at the end goes a little into the genesis of each tale, and was lovely I appreciated having his thoughts on each story at the end much more than before reading each, as was the case in The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.ĭeath is obviously pretty much always a major player in any Stephen King story, but I felt that it was a very present theme in this collection, and not in his usual way. It was by far the weakest and my least favorite of the novellas collected, and due to its length, I feel like it should carry more weight than the shorter, better stories-but I enjoyed the two stories that bookend the collection so much that I decided to go with the rounded up rating of four stars after all. If It Bleeds collects four previously unpublished novellas, and the longest piece, the title story, is a direct sequel to The Outsider, and revisits the character of Holly Gibney. The release date was moved up by two weeks due to the global pandemic, and breezing through these definitely made lockdown more bearable. After Different Seasons, Four Past Midnight, and Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King is back with the fourth novella-collection of his career.
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