Morning will come. Just pray you're there to see it.

AUTHOR: Stephen King

YEAR OF RELEASE: 1994

MY RATING: 7/10

BLURB:

A relentless waking nightmare in which the master of horror and suspense guarantees you sure won't rest in peace.

You'll lose a lot of sleep.

Ralph does. At first he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. Then the hallucinations start - the colours, shapes, and strange auras. Not to mention the bald doctors who always turn up at the scene of a death.

That's when Ralph begins to lose a lot more than sleep. When he begins to understand why his hitherto mild-mannered friend, Ed, is getting out of hand - dangerously so. And why his home town is about to become the new Armageddon.

An evil of unimaginable proportions has found a way in and Ralph has only one chance to beat it. The stakes are high - they always are when you're playing for human souls. With a Joker in the pack... A bald one with a rusty scalpel.

MY DESCRIPTION: The main character in this, Ralph, is your average lovely elderly person who you can't help but adore and root for. Once his wife passes away, he starts to have trouble sleeping and strange things are happening in his neighbourhood, such as people going completely crazy. Ralph can see auras and lights and little bald doctors that no one else can, and soon finds out that his sweetheart Lois is experiencing the same thing. They then have to confront these men and deal with the Crimson King. This story started off pretty slow but it was definitely worth the wait. It was really uplifting to see an elderly couple be the heroes of a story and the characters were fantastic. I could genuinely describe this book as beautiful and it had a grip on me the entire way through.