End of Watch by Stephen KingMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I’ve been dreading this one for quite awhile now, but I decided the time had come to finish the trilogy. Stephen King has more than enough talent and experience to create a compelling villain, which he’s proven on any number of occasions. But Brady Hartsfield just isn’t one. He’s intelligent without being clever, elaborate without being interesting, pathetic without being sympathetic in any way. He might have worked for a short story. Even one novel was pushing it. But the only saving grace of this set is that Hartsfield isn’t in the second one much. In the plus column, King recognizes that Holly Gibney is the real star of the show, thankfully the only major character to go on to subsequent works. As for this one, I’m mostly just glad not to have it in my to-read stack anymore.
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