Two Bloggers One Book ~ Finders Keepers by Stephen King

Barb and I are back with Bill Hodges and the gain for the second book in the trilogy. I have a feeling that Barb is enjoying this trilogy a bit more than I am...lol. So after you see what I have to say go check and see what she thought at Booker T's Farm.

Wake up, genius.

The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.

Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when he’s released from prison after thirty-five years.

So this one is about a deranged fan in the 1970s of an author who wrote stories about a man named Jimmy Gold and how he didn't like what the author did the the character so one night visits him with some friends and he kills him and takes all his money and find some notebooks containing some more stories about Jimmy Gold. Then turns on his friends and kills them, but things don't go well for Morris as after he hides them as he couldn't try and sell them right now, he gets picked up for rape, a crime he doesn't remember committing because when he gets drunk he blacks out and can never remember what he does. This gets him Thirty five years in jail. 

While bad things are happing to poor crazy Morris a teenager named Pete in 2010 is having a hard time with his parents fighting about finances all the time because his father is one of the people that got hit by Mr. Mercedes and he hasn't been able to work. One day Pete finds the money and notebooks and thinks this could solve the problems with his parents and starts anonymously sending them the money, but he doesn't do anything with the notebooks as he isn't sure how to go about selling them as he knows he should have showed it all to the police.

Fast forward a bit and Morris is out of jail and old man and all the can think about is finding his buried treasure as there will be some money and those notebooks. He never got to read them to find out what happened to Jimmy Gold, he could also sell them for lots of money, but they are not where he put them. 

Young Pete still wanting to try and help his family goes to a seller to just kind of try and see what something rare like those notebooks might be worth but finds the wrong guy, a guy who knows Morris and knows exactly what he has, it also leads Morris to the young man.

Bill Hodge isn't a cop any more but he still does a few things he has a business called Finders Keepers that Holly has been helping him with, she is very computer smart. Tina who is Pete's sister is pretty sure that her brother is in trouble and with a bit of a push from the sister of Jerome she tells Hodge about everything and it's a bit of a rush to try and save Pete and his family from the very deranged Morris.

This is told in three parts and well the first part is the two timelines of the 1970s (done forgot which year) and then 2010. So it goes back and forth about Morris and then about Pete. I was so bored. I also got annoyed with Pete calling the fights hiss parents had Arky Barky (not sure of actual spelling as I listened to this). Oh and not once was Bill Hodges even mentioned in this part!

Then part two we are in 2014 and Morris is out and Pete's a few years older and it got a little more interesting but still kind of boring. Though we did get a little bit of Bill Hodges and Holly which kind of saved this part from being a total snoozefest.

Then part three happened and that is when King kicks things into overdrive and it gets crazy and a lot more interesting as Morris is one messed up dude!! It was the best part of the book.

I like Hodges, but it's Holly who really makes this series, oh and Jerome but he wasn't in it that much. I think the first part of this book could have been cut down a bit and it would have been better, but we all know King likes to drag his books out. :) 

3 stars