Book Review: FAIRY TALE by Stephen KING

Reading any new Stephen King book feels like coming home after a long trip abroad, and FAIRY TALE is no different. The old Kingian staples—his familiar voice and folky style, his knack for building genuinely real characters, his down to earth examination of good and evil, his themes of grief, addiction, and recovery, his allusions to classic and popular literature, his focus on the power of stories—are all on full display here, and the writing feels more confident than ever. A joyous, heart-on-the-sleeve meditation on fairy tales wrapped up in a shiny, bright-eyed homage to the work of Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury, FAIRY TALE is the work of a master whose well of imagination is still worth plumbing.