Stephen King
Pet Sematary

THE REVIEW

We all try to remedy wrongs, whether they are wrongs we do to others or wrongs life does to us.

But, in most cases, once the deed is done, you cannot go back even if we wish so with all our might.

You cannot go back, except in the case you live in a cheerful little town in Maine, near an ancient Indian burial ground.

The Creed family, having moved from Chicago to Ludlow, where the head of the family, Louis, a doctor, has obtained a position as the director of the medical service at the University, is about to start a new life filled with hopes and dreams, but, as King teaches us, sometimes dreams turn into nightmares.

Louis is a rational, sensible person with little tendency to be impressed or to deny reality, and yet... Who wouldn’t do anything to be happy again, even if it means playing God?

In this book King narrates the impossibility of accepting what life reserves for us, treasuring the joys and trying to overcome the pains by looking ahead, never back, because you cannot go back, and if you do, it's never as it was before and never pleasant, and he does so with his fluid style never too verbose in descriptions, leaving the reader the opportunity to imagine the scenarios in which to immerse themselves.

"Pet Sematary" is certainly not an epochal book, there is nothing new written in it, a not too demanding read, but certainly at the end of this, if nothing else, enjoyable novel it is likely the question will arise in the mind: can I accept it?

What you gain at any cost is yours and what is yours will eventually come back to you