CELL By Stephen King

Published : 2006
Pages : 473
Overall Mark : 7/10

While in Boston on a business trip to try and sell his new comic book, Clayton Riddell finds himself one of the few people in the USA not to be affected by a telephone pulse which has been sent through the phone networks, transforming anyone who used the phone into a seemingly mindless zombie. Realising that his family might be at risk, Clay decides to try to make the journey home, little realising that his home state of Maine could well be where the pulse originated from.

This novel was extremely similar to King’s earlier novel, The Stand, which in turn takes a lot from Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend. King’s usual originality is missing here, instead he seems to be taking elements from his other works and mixing them around in the hope that he’ll come up with something new. Despite the feeling of being there before when I read this, I still found it to be an enjoyable read, and hope that King can keep up the good, though now not that original, work.