"The Institute"
by Stephen King
Overall Review: 4
Grip Factor: 4
Writing Style: 4
Engaging Plot: 4
Characters: 4
Satisfying End: 3
Goodreads review at: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3503651566
A thriller loading with all sorts of emotions
Every year thousands of children are abducted world across and are never found. The reasons for kidnapping are many and this book has brought forward an area completely unknown and scary. This book is about a shady organisation which takes kids with special abilities and puts them to use for their benefit. An amazing read, a page turner for me certainly. The book is not only a thriller but it brings forward many emotions such as loss, friendship, first love. How a small event or person or thing pushes the kids to fight for themselves and bring out victorious is amazing.
Starts small and post all twists turns big
The starting of the book seems very ordinary with a small town and a person running away from past. How that is tied to the main story of the kids is wonderful. When both the stories are brought together, you actually go back to the beginning and realize you have been reading the same book. The tale of the institute is dark, scary and unfair where the kids are exploited.
Brings together multiple stories with ease
Multiple stories are intermingled in this book together very beautifully. There are stories about the kids, the main character Luke, the caretaker who helps them, the lonely police guy who helps them. There are even short stories about the side characters and none of them seems incomplete. Every story has its space and every story contributes to the main story of the book. The beauty of the book is this all is done very easily and is so smooth that you do not even see it happening.
Ends with too much drama
The ending of this book however, could have been better according to me. There were lots of guns, lots of people shooting other people then kids moving and re-shaping the whole buildings. At one point it becomes too much and I was glad at one point that things finally ended. The ending could have been made a little less dramatic and realistic.
