The Book Worm

  So, I started the year with another unsurprisingly outstanding Stephen King book. The Institute (2019), is a thriller novel that traces the stories of kids with extraordinary abilities (Telekinesis, Telepathy) who are taken into custody ( so to speak) to a mysterious institution where they are subjected to horrible experiments and undergo various challenges. The Institute can be emotionally overwhelming especially when describing the struggles of the main young characters. It explores different themes, mainly power and abuse. The way King dives into the psychological aspects of his characters makes us, readers, share their feelings and experience their pain. I felt a little disinterested and bored (this is the very first time I  get this feeling while reading a King book) in the novel's early chapters, which may have been purposefully slow-paced while the author sets the stage and introduces the characters one by one. It’s a classic storytelling technique used to provide th