The Institute The Institute

The Institute

A Novel

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Publisher Description

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King whose “storytelling transcends genre” (Newsday) comes “another winner: creepy and touching and horrifyingly believable” (The Boston Globe) about a group of kids confronting evil.

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”

In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.

As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is “first-rate entertainment that has something important to say. We all need to listen” (The Washington Post).

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2019
September 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
576
Pages
PUBLISHER
Scribner
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
9.3
MB

Customer Reviews

eaglerivertracy ,

The Institute

Great book. The adult responses to the situations and the villains were silly, though, and underwhelming for what they were guilty of.

Robkei ,

Excellent Read

This is Stephen King at his best. I could not put this book down. Don’t start reading it if you have plans in the near future.

dragonflames1012 ,

Not my normal choice

Before this book and another of Stephen kings I can say I wasn’t a fan of his writing, for me- someone who usually preferred quicker books, ones which got to the point quickly instead of taking a long time to set the scene and give backstory- this book was surprisingly good, I didn’t have high standards seeing as I had never finished reading one of his books before, but this one sucked me in quickly. I had sat down expecting a long winded intro leading into an all too predictable story, but surprisingly this story was neither of those things, this book got into the plot very quickly and kept me hooked through its twists and turns, the plot changing or taking a twist every time I thought I had finally nailed down what it was going to do. Definitely worth the read, even for those who normally prefer quicker paced stories like myself.

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