Cell by Stephen King (2006, Hardcover)

I'm a big King fan, and this was one of the best I've read for years. The action began almost immediately, and unlike many of his books where we skip between timelines or between different people's perspective, this one just kept moving.

The characters are very real, with very current topics and settings, which made it more realistic and scarily possible. No aliens or dark forces, just a strange Pulse only expelained by hypotheticals and guesswork of the characters. All the time, we are left wondering why and how? What's going on in the rest of the world? What happened to the police or the army?

So much is left to ponder, and like others, I was extremely surprised when the end of the book came so quickly! The last 15 or so pages that I thought were more storyline where pages from a future book so I was shocked when that was it!

I'm not sure how much room there would be for a follow up, although I'd love to read one. I can only imagine it would be like reading the end-of-the-world novels of the 1980's Cold War days.