{"id":5592,"date":"2016-07-27T09:50:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5592"},"modified":"2018-06-19T11:33:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T17:33:40","slug":"end-of-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5592","title":{"rendered":"End of Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"81rLDztUK7L\"There was a time when I claimed that Finders Keepers<\/a> was not a sequel to Mr. Mercedes<\/a>. Likewise, I can now claim that End of Watch<\/a> is not a sequel to Finders Keepers<\/span>. Sure, they’re in the same continuity and with mostly the same characters, but except for acknowledging that those things happened in the past: not a sequel.<\/p>\n

But: End of Watch<\/span> is<\/em> a sequel to Mr. Mercedes<\/span>. So, y’know, there’s that? Now that I’ve clarified the interactions between the books, though, how am I supposed to review the third book of a trilogy, absent massive spoilers? I’ll say these things:<\/p>\n

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  1. It was good, and I liked it.<\/li>\n
  2. I liked it less than either of the other two books, but not enough to dim my enjoyment of them; all of the characters remained meaningful and important to me throughout. (Holly Gibney, especially, is pretty much the best.)<\/li>\n
  3. I think the main reason I liked it less is because after two books of solid mystery detectivey stuff, throwing in a supernatural element just did not seem to belong anymore. If you read this as a standalone book, which it would be maybe barely possible to do, you would not have this problem. All the same, I had it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So, yeah. That was definitely a book I liked reading, and I hope King keeps writing new books like usual. The fact that they cannot all be the best in no way detracts, y’know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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