Why did I love this book?
I’ve always been a fan of King’s work, and the title of this intrigued me. When I began reading it, I was hooked.
It is the story of Charlie, a teenager with a bad past who yearns to be a better person. This really spoke to me and mirrors my own life to an extent. Charlie finds his chance when he saves Howard Bowditch from a fall and encounters the man’s pet dog, Radar, who is also old and failing with only limited time left.
Radar’s plight, the love Charlie and others who know Radar feel for him, actually made me cry. Charlie must go on a hero’s quest to save Radar, away from this world and into another. This book has had such a profound effect on me, more so than any other I’ve read in recent years.
11 authors picked Fairy Tale as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
A #1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice!
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad…