Stephen King's incredible story reaches a surprising turn

Once upon a time, Stephen King created a fairy tale, but it takes him around 200 pages, or about a quarter of this book, to make it apparent that the name of his most recent work is utterly, engrossingly unironic. Teenage Charlie Reade serves as the main figure and storyteller of Fairy Tale. After Charlie's mom is killed in a vehicle accident, Charlie's father slips farther and deeper into alcoholism. The anxious high school student begs his father to give up drinking and swears to make amends if this happens. Charlie begins doing nice actions when his father finally decides to quit drinking. He eventually offers to aid Mr. Bowditch, a cranky and isolated elderly man who has fractured his leg and hip after falling.

Charlie becomes attached including both Bowditch and his equally elderly dog Radar while whole such as Bowditch's nurse, just as Bowditch begins to bond to Charlie. However, the young man is also conscious that his charges is peculiar because he maintains a box filled with gold pellets at his home and a shed where Charlie can hear noises "After a scratching, there was an odd chittering sound that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Not a creature noise. It was something I hadn't ever heard before."

King has claimed that the inquiry "What else could you compose that would make you smile?" he questioned him earlier in the outbreak served as inspiration for Fairy Tale. When perusing the end product, it's difficult to resist succumbing to the King's exuberance as he presents his numerous superheroes and villains, building a massive beanstalk of a book from the unimpressive handful of beans actual life had given him and the rest of the world back in the gloomy COVID days. Fairy Tale is nevertheless a fun voyage into the kind of universe King seems to have abandoned some time ago, even if parts of the world-building seems a little unfinished. Fans of the author's earlier fantasy works may undoubtedly anticipate living happily, if not forever.