" I went into this story blindly. I had only heard a little bit about it, mostly from the movie but I wasn't really sure what to make of it either. I was very underwhelmed when I finished this book and normally I highly enjoy Stephen King novels. To me it seemed like that this could've been much simplier and perhaps in a short story. I did like the interesting narrative that was presented in this book. It was told entirely from Dolores' mouth, all 300 pages in one night. That was probably the only interesting aspect of the story to me. There were some twists and turns in there that I wasn't expecting like Vera killing her husband and then seeing her children die even though she talked about them as they were alive. Dolores' story however seemed to me to be fairly predictable. I was able to get through the story much quicker when Dolores was telling about Vera's last hours and her fall down the stairs. It was as if her husband was dead again but more people paid attention to it because of her involvment and the way the crime was set out. The ending seemed a little cheap, her still giving away the money. But it was interesting to see the 'end of the tale' through newspaper articles and seeing that her children where finally coming home. "
— Meagan, 2/8/2014