31 Days of Halloween { review } Cell by Stephen King
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Cell by Stephen King . © 2010 Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781416524519. Mass Market Paperback. Horror. 480 pages.
Clay Riddell is in Boston on business when all of a sudden the world goes crazy. A teenage girl on a cell phone attacks a woman in a power suit, ripping her throat out. Cars crash into each other. People start speaking in gibberish as they try to attack and kill anyone and anything they can. Clay barely escapes with his life as he barricades himself with a few other seemingly normal people inside a building. They’re all completely in shock at what’s going on outside.
Clay and the other survivors prepare their escape from the town to try to find somewhere safe and find out what’s going on. They begin to suspect that it has something to do with cell phones. The crazy people are now traveling in packs, hunting for the survivors to change them as well. Then the dreams start… the same dreams for everyone and the signs start to pop up like they’re being shown the way to something or away from something.
As always, Stephen King is the master of story telling. He gives out just enough information to let you think you know what’s happening and then all of a sudden you’re not sure any more. The Cell will really leave you on the edge of your seat. What if cell phones really were dangerous? What if something besides conversations were being transmitted from phone to phone? What if it could really happen?
