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Horror Dark & Gritty Balanced

Pet Sematary

Stephen King

4.0 via Goodreads

A family moves to rural Maine, where a burial ground behind the pet cemetery has the power to bring the dead back — but not as they were.

Mood Dark & Gritty
Pacing Balanced
Complexity Moderately Complex
Reading Time ~19–28 hrs

The Honest Assessment

Now a major motion picture from Paramount Pictures starring John Lithgow, Jason Clarke, and Amy Seimetz! Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestseller Pet Sematary, a “wild, powerful, disturbing” (The Washington Post Book World) classic about evil that exists far beyond the grave—among King’s most iconic and beloved novels.When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true.

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Best read when you're in the mood for something dark and uncompromising — and want a read that's balanced and absorbing.

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