Xepherus Reads

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       Doctor Sleep is the sequel to the original novel The Shining written by Stephen King. The story picks up directly after the destruction of the Overlook Hotel,  finding Danny and Wendy Torrance dealing with the ghosts of the infamous hotel. Dick Hallorann is also with them, still cooking like a chef-superstar at a Florida hot spot. The old love of these characters comes back like a blast of warm, comforting air on a cold day.      After several bouts with the "ghostie people" of the Overlook, we fast-forward years later to an adult Dan Torrance, drunk as a skunk, high on drugs, who has reached the rock bottom of his life. He has used substance abuse most of his life to quell the shining within him. Lucky for him, because traveling the highways and bi-ways of America are the True Knot, an ancient race of immortals that kill and feed on people (mainly children) with the shining and other superna...