BOOK REVIEW: The Institute by Stephen King
I waited patiently for six months for Stephen King to release a new book. It only took me about a week to finish the 500 plus pages of the new Stephen King novel, The Institute. I will admit to wondering for the first part of the book about the night knocker but by the middle of the book, it all made sense This book had me from the moment the parents of Luke Ellis were killed and he was kidnapped from his home in the middle of the night. Luke woke up in a room at the Institute, which was a secure compound hidden deep in the woods of Maine. Luke was in a room that looked exactly like his room at home except for the fact that there were no windows. Luke is there because he displayed signs of psychic abilities, which will be advanced and exploited. He started in the “front half” but all residents eventually graduate to the “back half,” which is bad. It is even worse to go to the “back half” of the “back half,” which is awful on a whole other level. There were times I would hav...