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Stephen King: Joyland (2013) 3 stars

Joyland is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 2013 by Hard Case …

cliche done well?

3 stars

Enjoyed this summer job coming of age storytelling, my first King in a long time. There's much intentional cliche, with smart perspective, but I felt the constraints of turning this towards mystery and murder dragged at the more central story around how we grow our sense of relationship and friendship after those first crushed crushes.