Briskly paced and sharply observed, it’s one of King’s strongest outings in years, a spiritual sequel of sorts to 2011’s unwieldy “11/22/63” These concepts give “Revival” a satisfying weight, despite its relative (for King, anyway) brevity at 416 pages. If we could change the most awful things we experience in a lifetime, would we? Should we? Revival realizes Morton more fully than Jacobs, somewhat robbing the nightmarish climax of emotional power.īut along the way, King ponders some profound questions, such as the role fate plays in each of our lives. Morton first crosses paths with Jacobs in the former’s youth during the early ’60s, and after a gruesome turn of events leaves Jacobs’ faith shattered, the men’s lives weave themselves together in unexpected ways over the ensuing decades. The 67-year-old author has found the sweetness in aging, although his reflections upon growing older are always tinged with a little sadness and fear. As has become King’s wont over the past decade, much of the tale wrestles with the idea of mortality. Mercedes”) fuses human drama with supernatural horror.
A page-turning tug-of-war between reformed rocker Jamie Morton and man of faith Charles Jacobs, “Revival” (King’s second novel this year after spring’s “Mr.
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