Title: (1.5) Suffering from too much imagination
Review: FOLLY will eventually be a mass-market best seller, no doubt, in spite of the fact that the book cried out for a good editor. Read the other reviews for plot; I found it formulaic and clumsy. The heroine, Rae, an artist-woodworker, widowed and depressed, isolates herself on a remote island formerly owned by a mysterious dead relative. Not a huge mystery, but at least the hint of one. King's characters are so wooden and one-dimensional, they never come alive, stuck forever in their blocks. The plots twists in unlikely unresolved ways, leaving the reader with unanswered questions. Then there are endless pages devoted to varieties of wood that fail, however, to interest or enlighten. There is little personal investment by this writer, which says volumes beyond the much-burdened folly of FOLLY.
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