For a variety of reasons that I will not share, this book was almost unreadable for me. I have read more than half of Mr. King's published writings and this one, by far, was the hardest to keep reading but was too compelling to stop mainly because I was curious about Holly. Unfortunately I've never had the pleasure of meeting Stephen King, but my opinion is that he is a "fracking" psycho with a terribly horrifying imagination and an amazing storyteller.