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Firestarter

by Stephen King

Horror FantasyContemporary Fantasy
Published 1980 Pages 576 ~10h Rating ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.06 Audience Adult Heat 🔥🔥 Pacing Fast-paced Magic Soft
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Darkness Level 4 — Dark
Violence, trauma and morally harsh outcomes
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Narrated by Ryan Weed · 15h

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Synopsis

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, “his highest Fahrenheit reading yet” (Time). Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as the Shop…

Tropes

Coming of AgeOutcast HeroPower at a CostRebellionSecret IdentityForbidden Magic

Awards

★ Locus Nominee

Tone

Dark & SeriousMysteriousAdventurous

Content Warnings

graphic-violenceabusetorturepsychological-trauma

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