I read Dr. Sleep by Stephen King.
Spoiler....
I'd give the book a B- or C+ (depending on which mood I'm in) I didn't think it was anywhere near as scary as the Shining was. No way. Actually, on my scary scale, I would give it a F. The reason I would give it a high score.....b/c it did hold my attention from start to finish. That is a decent book that can do that.
I thought it was a much better book than the last few ones that SK has put out. I def. think SK lost some of his mojo when he quit drinking.
I loved the character Abra.
The top hat lady- Blah. That was a stupid character. For one thing, she was supposed to be scary. She was never scary b/c the little girl always beat her at every turn. The top hat lady couldn't even haunt Abra's head right without getting her butt kicked. The top hat lady didn't even know about Doc at all. She was a lame/bad character, IMO. Hell, she couldn't even keep her band of gypsies together and united.
Does anybody ever read a book...and in their own head...they start changing the story to make it better? I do that all the time. I kept making the top hat lady much more scary and evil in my own head than she was in the book.