End of Watch: A Novel (3) (The Bill Hodges Trilogy) by Stephen King (Epub)

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For nearly six years, in Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, Brady Hartsfield has been in a persistent vegetative state. A complete recovery seems unlikely for the insane perpetrator of the “Mercedes Massacre,” in which eight people were killed and many more maimed for life. But behind the vacant stare, Brady is very much awake and aware, having been pumped full of experimental drugs…scheming, biding his time as he trains himself to take full advantage of the deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room. Brady Hartsfield is about to embark on a new reign of terror against thousands of innocents, hell-bent on taking revenge against anyone who crossed his path—with retired police detective Bill Hodges at the very top of that long list….

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Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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⭐ It just keeps coming back to that day at the job fair, and the Mercedes Massacre.Six years have passed since Brady Hartsfield drove a gray Mercedes into a crowd of desperate job seekers, killing eight and injuring many others. A year later, he ended up in a mental hospital, first in a coma, then awake, but with severe brain damage, enough to keep him from going to trial for that and the attempted murder of thousands.Now, in “End of Watch,” retired detective and co-owner of the investigative agency Finders Keepers learns about a murder suicide that tangentially points back to Hartsfield. As more clues come to light, it seems clear that Hartsfield is behind a series of suicides and attempted suicides, but how can that be possible, with him in a mental ward in a near-vegetative state? Thousands of lives could be on the line if Hodges, now deathly thin and ailing, can’t figure it out, and stop the suicides in time.Enough summary. This final book in the Bill Hodges Trilogy drew me right in. We find familiar and new characters we love and hate, all well-rounded with strong motivations. “End of Watch” adds a new element, psychic powers, likely brought on by an experimental drug, and it makes the story all the more terrifying.The theme of suicide comes back strongly in this novel, and King includes a real suicide hotline number, 1-800-273-TALK.”End of Watch” is a satisfying conclusion to the Bill Hodges Trilogy.

⭐ Let me be clear, I like Stephen King. I was slow to pick up Mr. Mercedes, however, because it just sounded like just another psycho killer mystery. Nonetheless , the genre busting style of the writing, and the quirky characters sucked me in. By the end of the first book, I was a begrudging admirer of the setup.I was even more surprised by Finders Keepers, the follow up. The divergence to a new storyline and set of characters for most of the book, coupled with a smooth integration of the original crew at the three-quarter mark was clever and seamless. This was easily my favorite of the trilogy.The end of Finders Keepers hinted pretty heavily where End of Watch would go. The writing was tight, and the characters were well developed, but the plot, for me, just wasn’t believable. I have accepted all kinds of fantastic stuff in Mr. King’s stories, but the notion of a comatose psycho killer projecting his consciousness into others to via a retro handheld video game jumped my shark.Not the best of the three.

⭐ This was an excellent book. Faced paced, heartfelt, well written characters who made you feel like they were real, if only for a moment. It’s not many books that run the gamut of emotions, but this one did. Even though I knew how the final scene would play out, it was still sad when it did. Every time I read a SK book I wonder if it’s going to be his last. If this is his final book (he still talks retirement — I think there’s more King in Hodges than in a lot of his past characters) this would be the way to go out. Read this series ASAP and see if you don’t get that feeling from it too.Thank you, Stephen King, for everything.Peace.

⭐ I was anxiously awaiting the conclusion to the Bill Hodges Trilogy from Stephen King after blasting through the first two books in the series. The way the second book ended I was expecting something completely different from what King delivered in this conclusion. This is definitely a departure from the rather gritty, real-world detective fiction that the previous two novels presented. Instead King re-entered some of the realms he presented in earlier works like Carrie and the Green Mile. Much more supernatural than parts one and two, but totally engrossing and exciting. The novel is long, as are most King books of late, but it’s a rather quick read – hard to put down – just one more chapter. Obviously it won’t make much sense if you haven’t read the first two books even though King does a good job of refreshing your memory of what went on before. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

⭐ Books number one and two were warm, funny, and exciting. The relationships that developed between the characters, as well the obsession that Brady and Hodges both had with revenge on each other, seemed believable. Book three was where it all started to unravel. I kept hoping for a cool, logical explanation for the paranormal events that Brady seemed to be causing. Once Brady died, I was expecting that Babineau, his physical “host” had been so thoroughly brainwashed that he truly believed he was Brady in the flesh. But nope, this was Stephen King. I thought he was really doing something different this time, but in the end, there was no rational explanation for the paranormal activity (power of suggestion for the nursing staff to see the curtains and bed linens move, for example). So we’re supposed to believe that Brady is physically dead, but his consciousness was still alive in Babineau, and that Brady would be able to enjoy creating more victims from the attacks in the first two books into infinity (or at least until the handheld games fell apart or became entirely obsolete).I finished this book out of hope that it would improve. But it just sort of plodded along with convenient, outlandish plot devices, and previously likable characters like Jerome and Holly (and even Hodges, to some extent) became tiresome, wooden stereotypes of themselves. Brady became a cartoon villain. King treats their character development so perfunctorily here that it was really hard to keep caring about them.The cheap plot devices–including advanced, incurable cancer (the book is called “End of Watch”–duh!!) with severe pain that doesn’t stop Hodges from playing superhero; a supposedly brain-damaged patient who can fake his condition even to the extent of taking a punch to the groin without so much as a flinch; the ability to provoke people to suicide using handheld video games that magically play on their weaknesses and fears; and the ability to control accomplices all from the confines of a hospital room–might have worked better had the trilogy started out that way. But by waiting until the last book to trot out these superpowers, it ended up feeling like a cheap and lazy way to wrap up what was otherwise a great ride, while it lasted.

⭐ I never review a connected series of books individually. After all, if a book doesn’t stand alone…how can one say whether it’s good or bad without the others?I loved the tale King told in this trilogy. The characters of Hodges, Holly, Jerome, Barbara and of course the monster, Brady Hartsfield developed nicely through the the series and kept me wanting more. Some may say the the first two books didn’t have as much King weirdness as they may have liked, but they were the perfect setup for the mega Stephen King imagination and awesomeness of Book 3, End of Watch. I always say that again…King didn’t disappoint…and am saying it once again.

⭐ Yet, never read a book twice. This is the first time I’ve ever done that. Not reading one book twice but all three. What brought This about was the show on the audience network, Mr. Mercedes. Started watching it and love it. This story is just too good in many ways and bringing them to life is fantastic. Most of all the characters are so wonderful yup even the evil ones. Not evil in the normal King sense. Just a refreshing change of pace in a cop vs serial psycho kind of way. I’m just giving my opinion , not one of those reviews where the person writes a novel and tell us every stinking detail. Hope you check it out. Xo

⭐ This was the final book of the trilogy started in the straight crime novel MR. MERCEDES and continued in the mostly crime novel with a touch of the supernatural FINDERS KEEPERS. This final book ties all the loose ends together and goes all-out supernatural (I don’t think author King could help himself) and, while I actually really enjoyed the crime novel aspects, I loved the supernatural twists and bends.Ex-cop and current PI Bill Hodges and his partner Holly Gibney continue to be on the path of Brady Hartsfield, mass murderer AKA Mr. Mercedes, even though Holly gave him a traumatic brain injury when he tried to blow himself and a few thousand teen concert goers up a few years ago. They don’t really believe he’s in a vegetative state and as a rash of suicides start happening, their worst fears are realized.I loved this whole trilogy. I loved Bill and Holly especially and Jerome. This set of books is why I read Stephen King. I highly recommend this trilogy to King fans and fans of crime fiction and fans of supernatural twists.

⭐ Long time reader (constant reader, you might say), who enjoyed this story a lot. I would say it’s a satisfying end to the trilogy. Everything felt right and came full circle. I even felt a little misty eyed at the funeral scene, I admit. If I have any criticism of the story it isn’t really specific to this book but King’s current habit of letting his politics and social agenda invade his work. It bothers me because as a constant reader, the thing I loved most about his work is how fully he pulled me into whatever level of the Tower we were on. I got to leave my own world for that one, if just for a little while. Increasingly, that feeling is halted (abruptly and annoyingly) by a mention of Trump or some other current social element of the political left that, even if you align with that end of the political spectrum, can’t help but feel ham-fisted into your escape from reality with the warm welcome reserved for the dentist who extracts your tooth with a crowbar. For now I just roll my eyes and read on, but was a time that I could read a Stephen King story cover to cover and not do that once. No longer.

⭐ Fully developed characters (in all three books) carry the story, and the realistic nature of the flaws of each give the story an honestly that is rare. Mostly the heroes are omnipotent in their godlike goodness and the villains are equally shallow in their wicked genius. Not so here, these characters are a hodgepodge of everyman flawed human beings that happen to be in the right place at the right time. I found this refreshing and believable. All that said, I liked the characters but did not love them. The stories are good but not compelling, good enough to finish in a world with not enough hours in a day (if that helps). They made a TV series about the first book, I hope they continue with the three.SK’s Dark Tower are my on my very short list of favorite books, along with the original Dragonlance series, Brown’s Code series, and Abercrombie’s First Law books. These books are not on that list, (why not more stars) but very good and worth a read. SK does not lack for the disturbing scene or two that satisfies the anticipation for the worst and sometimes best in people.

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