I guess I can’t quite say that seeing as this is just the third work that I’ve ever read.

Very opposite of A Good Marriage, it is hard to pinpoint what makes 1922 feel much lesser in the Stephen King collection. When does doing what everyone perceives as a bad thing become a good thing for the right reasons? So many layers and such brilliant character development, A Good Marriage is a great read. Its a little twisted and puts morals on the table as to how far you’d go to protect yourself. The reveal of the secret is slower as well as we are deceived into a little secret that when Darcy chooses to let go momentarily results in consequent actions dealing with something much more unforgivable. We are acquainted with these characters quickly. We learn a little about the marriage that how Darcy and Bob get together and their 25 years of marriage. However, curiosity in the end does kill the cat. For the first bit of the novella, we are only reading Darcy and the feelings she gets as she discovers that there’s something her husband is hiding.

This novella excels in being able to communicate the inner feelings of our characters. Spontaneous coincidences are the unexpected factors in life and sometimes it leads to the events in A Good Marriage. Her husband although is the source of the issue here also has chilling moments where we truly can feel why. The agony and conflict she feels along with the eventual disgust and all those feelings are captivated so well to make us feel what she is feeling. She has to choose to survive and make choices that can get her through it. We pretty much follow the voice of a wife that finds out a horrible secret of her husband. The writing and suspense and thrills carries and builds at a great pace. Let’s check it out!Ī Good Marriage is an absolute page turner. It starts with A Good Marriage and follows up with 1922. For those who didn’t read my review, you can find it here. However, that other day that I forgot my Kindle at home and remembered that I picked up this one on sale during the holidays drove me to read it. I even have Salem’s Lot sitting on my shelf. The original plan for Stephen King readings was to read his books or short stories in chronological order of release.

A good marriage by stephen king