Oh. My. Goodness. This book was INSANE. Leave it up to SK to mess me up without even being that horrifying. This book focuses so much on duality and the meaning of Misery. As a verb, as a noun, as a passage of time and transformation. On one hand we feel like our MC Paul is in over his head, but on the other hand in the face of such terror and horrid circumstances, he faces it with such resilience at then end. But to what cost in the long haul?

Annie Wilkes character was not exactly what I thought she would be. Initially she appears as a possible kind but mentally ill woman who maybe misses the mark on what the right thing to do is, but as we go on with the book we learn that she’s really…smart. Like Bundy smart. And in that realization a sense of helplessness hits the reader too.

Highly recommend especially if you want to read something out of pocket that has you thinking so much from a literary sense as well.