This had one of the best written and realistic villains I have ever read about. This book is great for anyone who is a Stephen King fan.

Annie was such an unpredictable character that I was literally kept in a state of tension the entire time I was reading. I couldn’t help myself, I just had to know what happened next in the book. We also really only have two main characters, Annie and Paul. Misery takes place on Annie’s farm, but mainly just in one room over a period of months. I loved how we were able to read his internal dialogue and what he was really thinking in these scenes. Paul quickly learned that the best way to get through this alive was to appease her and tell her what she wants to hear. On top of her obsession, she forces Paul to write a new Misery novel just for her after she finds out that Paul kills off Misery Chastain in the newest and what was supposed to be his final Misery novel.Īnnie can go from being overly sweet and kind to a raging lunatic in seconds. This is every author’s nightmare to be kidnapped by an obsessed fan. King did an excellent job at creating a very realistic character. Annie is never going to let him go.Īnnie is by far one of the scariest villains I have read about. As the days go on, Paul realizes he wasn’t rescued but kidnapped. Annie has all the answers the roads are snow-covered from the storm and the phone lines are down. He firsts questions why he isn’t in a hospital or why he can’t use the telephone. Annie is not only his number one fan but an obsessive psychopath. What he doesn’t realize is that the car accident is the least of his worries. This is when he finds out he has been in a car accident and was rescued by Annie. Paul wakes up in the house of his self-proclaimed number one fan, Annie Wilkes’ house with two shattered legs. Mix that with driving through a blizzard and the outcome is devastating. After celebrating finishing his newest novel (not of the Misery series), he drinks a little bit too much Dom Perignon champagne. Paul Sheldon is the best-selling author of the Misery series. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader – she is Paul’s nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. He’s a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan.

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