Caustic Queen wrote:Gerald's Game - 5/10
The first half was pretty good. Have some good "eww" stuff in it, but then it falls apart.
They try to shove the entire 2nd half of the story into a montage of some sort.
I'm gonna give this one a 6.5/10 since I had no idea how they would ever film this book.
I agree the backstory for the Moonlight Man could have been fleshed out more, and the tie-up a bit less montagey, but honestly, that didn't really bother me too much.
I thought the casting was aces and having her husband speak to her, and how they went about her talking to herself worked for me. Both of those aspects could have been much more clumsy.
Hell, the book is 300 pages of a woman talking to herself.
I also liked the Delores Claiborne Easter egg thought it was just another tip of the hat to Sai King and his universe.