![]() Jared rides his bike down the street carrying a week’s worth of laundry. For example, one of the major characters is Jared, a young boy whose father has been missing since he was little and a mother who is losing her marbles. This is an author who knows how to gain from head-hopping. The story made much more sense when I figured that out. I typically skip reading Chapter titles and subtext, so it wasn’t until seven or eight chapters in that I realized that half the characters are located on Junction, Texas and half in Reserve, Louisiana. She bounces from townfolks to townsfolk to capture the full impact of the horror that this drought and the mysterious happenings that have plagued these two towns. King uses Maine as the blueprint to his stories, while Fulton uses the rain-starved South. ![]() ![]() Like Stephen King, Patricia Fulton creates not merely a story, she creates a world in her book. ![]()
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