What’s a person to do when sheltering from Covid? In King’s case, write something to entertain himself while reflecting on what was going on in the world outside-ravaged cities, contentious politics, uncertainty. Narnia on the Penobscot: a grand, and naturally strange, entertainment from the ever prolific King. Wheels within wheels within wheels, cunningly intermeshed by a master who sweats every nightmarish detail. But this big reveal isn’t the climax it’s only the pivot to a new set of mysteries Hallie steps into when she leaves Las Vegas for Boston and begins to sense what an extravagant set of crimes, past and present, underlie the dreams that don’t feel like dreams at all. Clearly Hallie’s being tracked by unknown parties plotting some deeper game, and many readers will figure out what that game is before Freeman confirms their suspicions. A pair of assailants nearly kidnap her before they’re run off, and Todd Kivel, the private eye who appears out of nowhere to rescue her, gets killed for his trouble. Her dreams about the death of a young woman named Savannah make her feel as if this is her sister, though she’s an only child. The name of Tyler Reyes, the founding CEO of Boston-based medical device developer Hyppolex, seems as familiar as if they’d met, despite the fact that they clearly haven’t.
Reed Smith, another guest at the reception, miraculously restarts her heart, she starts being plagued by vivid, disturbing dreams that feel “more like memories…someone else’s memories.” She has vivid, detailed recollections of Boston, a city she’s never visited. It’s not until after the worst Fourth of July imaginable-her boss fires her, her boyfriend texts to dump her for her roommate, and she’s pronounced dead after drinking and fighting too much at a reception-that Las Vegas copywriter Hallie Evers’ real problems kick in. Fiendish Freeman has engineered another peerlessly bumpy ride.
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