Pet Sematary

by: Stephen King
I usually always have the kid in my review photos, but this one
called for the fur-baby to take her place. It was too perfect.When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son--and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the friendly cat.
But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth--more terrifying than death itself...and hideously more powerful. {cover copy}
So, I have seen this cover and heard this title for years but never actually knew what it was about. Somewhere in my brain I thought vaguely that Pet Sematary had to do with Cujo. But after picking it up and reading the introduction from Stephen himself in which he said this was the novel he put in a drawer and thought he had finally gone too far. It, to him, is the most terrifying novel he's written. And honestly, I can see why. On one level, for me, it wasn't scary. But on another, it was chilling. I can't quite figure out why I remain split on this except to say that it had something to do with the ending. I could see where things were going for a good part of the story, probably because I read the intro. {So be careful there if you want to go in without expectations}. And also because I asked my dad if he had read it when I was just starting it and he was vague enough not to spoil anything but hinted at how dark it would get. That, combined with the intro, meant I had a good idea of what was coming and I think my level of fear lessened due to that. But then, even knowing, it definitely ramped up to a great ending that surprised me and was truly creepy as sh*t. This was a great one. Definitely one I will count as his scariest.

Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered his middle age, but that was exactly what happened...although he called this man a friend, as a grown man must do when he finds the man who should have been his father relatively late in life. {first line}
"Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there."

"Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children."

"...there are rusty, half-buried things in the terrain of any life and ... human beings seem compelled to go back to these things and pull at them, even though they cut."

"there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love."

• said • {last word}