Firestarter by Stephen King

Firestarter

by Stephen King

Available on Amazon

Rating (1-5) 📘 📘📘
Genre - Psychic Thrillers, Witch & Wizard Thrillers
Format - Paperback
Pages - 401

*Amazon Blurb*

Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them—manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen—pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary...including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own....

*My Review* 

For some reason I found myself unable to really stay interested in this book. I knew before reading it that the girl, Charlie had a pyrokinesis and a general idea of how the story would go. I had not seen the movie, though, so I didn't know how it would end. This book starts out with lots of action and it never seems to slow down. Usually that will hold my attention, so I honestly don't know what happened.

Andy and Charlie are on the run from the "Shop" who want to capture and test both Andy and Charlie because of their unique abilities. The Shop will stop at nothing to get what they want. Once they capture Andy and Charlie they set to work on trying to get Charlie to start fires. Little do they know, she made a promise to her Dad that she would never make another fire. What will the shop do to this little girl if she doesn't cooperate? Will they torture her? Punish her? Will she make them their fires? Lots of questions that you can get answered by reading the book (or watching the movie if that's your thing).