The government agency tracking them, a secret branch called The Shop (a group that shows up again in several other King books) is after Charlie. His daughter, Charlie, has the ability to start fires with her mind, and where her father is diminished by using his power, Charlie's psionic ability gets stronger with use. He can actually attack their nerves with enough force to physically blind someone, but depending on how much mental force he puts behind the push, he suffers repercussions ranging from migraines to actual brain hemorrhages.
The father uses a mental “push” to either urge people to follow his suggestions or to believe something he tells them. Man, am I glad I gave some of his other books a shot.įirestarter hooks you from the beginning with a father and daughter on the run from shadowy government agents.
I started with Tommyknockers, which is a hybrid horror-science fiction tome, and not a very good novel at all. It was also the first of his books where I finally saw the appeal he had with the masses. It was the book where King began to stretch beyond the constraints of horror, though he would constantly return to those red waters. But there are no serial killers or vengeful spirits, no vampires or Lucifer stand-ins. It's a chase story, an escape story, a government-run-amok story, a father-daughter story. But Firestarter is a science fiction novel. Now here, six books into his career, King gives us a new story about a girl gifted with psychic abilities, a book that is not what people then, or even now, considered a “Stephen King book.” You expected monsters, ghosts, hauntings, killers. It was a short novel thin on story, but it cemented King as the writer of horror and supernatural fiction of the 70s and 80s. Carrie had telekinesis and used it to slash and burn her way through half her high school class after some popular kids dumped pig's blood on her at the prom. Firestarter by Stephen King Reading Review by Michael Channingįirestarter is Stephen King's second book about a young girl with psy powers.
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