This is one of the earliest Stephen King books I read. It is probably the reason I am still one of Stephen King’s biggest fans still today. Firestarter begins and draws you right into the book, making you forget where you even are for as long as you read the book.
You fall in love with the characters, feeling what they feel, crying when they cry. It is a fast paced and well written book. It makes you wonder is there really places out there that actually do that to people? To children? Can you imagine if there is? What about how these children and people feel, how alone and alien they feel because they are so different from most other people.
Stephen King actually makes you feel how these different people feel. My heart broke for the Firestarter and from the first page of that book all the way through to the last, I shookwith terror and with rage for circumstances that I could not control (because I didn’t have the pen), I cried with joy and with sadness, and I laughed.
It’s a wonderful book. For those of you who have not read a Stephen King book, start with this one because it isn’t to full of horror and beyond this world terror.