Cell - Stephen King

Apparently Stephen King does not own a Cell phone, and if you read this book you will understand why!


Those unfortunate enough to own a cell phone and answer it at the time of a particular event called The Pulse are sent into a violent zombie state.

We then follow the adventures of a group of unlikely friends heading north in search of the young son of one of them.

As time goes on it appears that our zombies are settling down and becoming ‘aware’, able to communicate via telepathy and demonstrating the ability to levitate. Using their telepathic abilities they affect the direction that ‘normies’ are travelling in, in an effort to round them all up and infect them with the ever mutating ‘Pulse’.

Can our four travelers escape what seems the inevitable, and will they find the boy?

It is not worth naming the characters as ultimately you don’t really care about them or what happens to them. The beginning is messy and unrecognizable as a Stephen King novel, however if you persevere the story does travel along at an even pace. The ending was unsatisfactory, and if you have not read Stephen King before then this is not a good introduction to a normally gifted story teller.