Picking up this book warped me right back in time to 1987, when I was a 16-year old teenager who had just recently discovered Stephen King and read all his books. It was summer, it was hot, and my favorite record was New Order's Substance 1987, which was playing constantly in the background while I read The Shining. Reading about the Overlook Hotel, I can hear Shell Shock in my subconscious.

Anyhow, Doctor Sleep is the book I never knew I wanted, a return to Danny. It's not quite as good as The Shining, but I loved it anyhow.

As quick synopsis, we watch Dan grow up into an alcoholic like his dad to dull his Shining. Eventually he settles in New Hampshire, joins AA and meets Abra Stone, a 13-year old girl with the same powers he had, just stronger. But there's a group of beings called The True Knot who travel the US in campers, traveling around to find children like Abra, to kill and torture them, so their Shining gets absorbed by them as steam. Abra and Dan challenge them, and the showdown is in the HQ of the True Knot, unsurprisingly on the grounds of what formerly used to be the Overlook Hotel...

Was a pageturner for me. It is very different from The Shining in style, but I have to say that I aged along with Mr. King, and really enjoy his books that he has written in the last decade.