The child is trying to survive in this world with no father, a struggling mother, with basically no friends, and having to cope with a special talent which doesn’t make life easy. The characters are all quite likeable and Jamie in particular is excellently built and developed. A coming-of-age tale, it is a mixture of paranormal, police work, drugs, economics, book industry, etc. It has some passages which could fall under this category but overall it is more of a thriller / crime book.

What I like the most is to learn how Jamie has accepted his “special talent” and has learnt how to live with it without letting it be a handicap. and in the middle of all this, there is a child with a special ability who solves everyone’s problems in the end. It has happened to me with many of his books but it did not happen with “Later”.Īnyway, Jamie has already helped Liz but somehow this doesn’t appease the dead people Jamie sees and it all ends up quite badly, as it usually happens in King’s books: lots of deaths, blood, etc. However, I miss King’s ability to make me shiver with just one sentence.

IT IS A STEPHEN KING BOOK AFTER ALLįrom here on, the story gets more and more complex as well as creepy. He could be her big “miracle” in a police department where she has only had problem after problem. They saved themselves from bankruptcy.įor this reason, when NYPD Detective Elizabeth Dutton meets Jamie, she perceives he could be of help to her in order to catch a serial killer. Furthermore, she uses his son’s ability to change their bad economic situation and it worked completely fine. But she slowly realizes it may be true after all. Tea, of course, doesn’t believe Jamie can see dead folks. He is a normal child with a specialty: he has the ability of seeing dead people. He lives with his mum, Tea Conklin who is a literary agent. But he tells us his own story of when he was only 13 years old. Jamie Conklin is 22 years old at the start of the book. So as part of Johann’s challenge #50states50horrorbooks I decided to read “Later” for the state of New York.Īlthough I very much enjoyed the story and the characters, I was perhaps expecting a bit more horror than what the book contains.ĭon’t get me wrong, there are some scenes which are extremely creepy and will stay in my mind forever. That Stephen King is one of my favourite writers is not a secret. “There’s always a later, I know that now.

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