.Don't answer the phone, Don't even pick it up. If you do you'll go nuts. That's what's happened to the rest of the world. There are only a few survivors and they are running for their lives.
Cell is very much old school Stephen King, although it was only published just over ten years ago. It's like a cross between The Stand, The Long Walk and Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'.
It doesn't start off very well at all and for the first time in my life I was considering ditching it. Without any warning we are thrust into a scenario which would have been better with a slower build up. But then it settles down and it's actually a decent book.
It's a pity that it was let down by the ending. I don't mind open endings, King usually does them well, but this ending was too unrealistic in a needle in a haystack kind of way. But that's all I will say.
A decent book that needed a better beginning and a better ending.
7.5/10
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