This is yet another novel I bought while I was going through a phase where I would buy any King book I saw in a resale shop, regardless of how many other books I had to read. 
 It didn't seem great. If it wasn't for the fact that I was hoarding every Stephen King novel on Earth I would never have bought it based on the synopsis and what a mistake that would have been! This novel is a perfect example of the not judging a book by its cover. I feel like I say this in a lot of reviews, so maybe I just have a personality that is prone to pleasant surprises. 
 The novel is nowhere near as tense and scary as I thought that "Gerald's Game" was and it's certainly shorter than most King tomes tend to be, but the book is more moving than a lot of his work. I found myself being genuinely affected by some parts of it. 
 The creature in this book is less frightening than a lot of the adversaries he's come up with over the years, but also a lot more plausible. As far as supernatural monsters go this one (and the way Trisha handles the entire experience) was very believable. 
 I will definitely be re-reading "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon".