I do love a good Stephen King novel, and lucky for me there are millions of them – I still have quite a few to get through!
Revival is a funny one (not funny ha ha, funny odd). A lot of the book reads like a straight coming of age, life story journey following Jamie, five years old at the start of the book, living in a quite religious family in middle America from the moment he meets the new Pastor of his church, Charles Jacobs, a young man with a lovely wife and baby son who has an interest verging on an obsession with electricity.
When Jamie’s big brother has an accident damaging his larynx which threatens to leave him mute Pastor Jacobs tries an experimental electric shock treatment on him which cures his affliction.
Throughout Jamie’s life he has interactions with Pastor Jacobs, who’s manipulation of electricity seems to have power for great good and great evil, and towards the end of his life (and the end of the book) things take a very weird turn.
The last act of the novel is suddenly full of supernatural, metaphysical, horror, which I wasn’t sure what to make of, but still, I did still really enjoy the book.
Sarah Wray Writer 