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Summary: Stays with me
Review: Well, hello, Mr. King! This is one of the few books he's written without sounding either completely nuts or like he just didn't care about what he was writing. King has created a real, live, fiery if you will, book that captures the reader.This is one of my favorite books of all time. Little Charlie McGee is just your cute, cuddly, normal child-- except for the fact that she can create fire with her mind. Her father and mother were part of a drug testing experiment that gave them psychic powers-- Charlie was the result of their marriage. Now the government wants Charlie as a weapon of war, and they're prepared to say and do anything to get her back. King traces the present with stunning urgency, emphasizing again and again the hopelessness of the father and daughter's run against the government. He then traces the past with equal grace, weaving the story all around you to make sure you get it, but always dangling a loose end for you to while the night away trying to wrap up. Leave it to King to take a topic most would scoff at (pyrokinesis) and transform it into a very real, and very haunting, book. The characters struggle and push and feel, and by the end you'll be feeling along with them. With King's warped mind and unique take on the lengths our government will go to, he is quite the storyteller-- it makes one wonder whether M. Night Shalaman took his cues from King.
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