I am an emotional mess. I finished this book while babysitting and ended up crying, which became awkward when the parents came home. 
 The Good: 
 I've fallen in love with Stephen King and his writing. There is something so captivating about it. After reading Under The Dome and falling in love with that, I decided to go for something not as gory as his most popular books for my second go-around. 11/22/63 did not disappoint. It was fast paced, intricate, gripping, and heartfelt. 
 The characters were all so real and believable. Never once did I think, "No. Nobody would ever do that." And the plot. Boy, oh, boy, the plot would have been thrilling if it had just been Jake and his mission. Adding so many other characters and deep relationships to the plot really amped up the suspense. I was quite literally on the edge of my seat sometimes. 
 The Bad but Not-So Bad: 
 A good three or four hundred pages easily could have been chopped out of the book. There was a tedious amount of down time where barely anything happened. This added to the suspense as it made the mission more complicated but sometimes it felt a bit much. At the same time, if those three or four hundred pages had been cut, the story would have lost a lot of the heart that made it so wonderful. 
 If you want a Stephen King novel with minimal violence and language, this is the book for you. If you want a Stephen King novel with a lot of heart and warm-ish feelings, this is also the book for you. Basically, if you are a human being who likes to read, this is the book for you.