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The Institute: A Novel

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Updated: September 10, 2019

Content length: 576 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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Synopsis

Now an MGM+ Original Series! From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. “This is King at his best” (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch). 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 another winner: creepy and touching and horrifyingly believable, all at once” (The Boston Globe).

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💖Spotlight Pick — What Makes It Special

If you want Stephen King at his most sinister-yet-believable, The Institute hooks hard: twelve-year-old genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped and wakes in a hidden facility holding other abducted kids with telekinesis/telepathy, where compliance is “rewarded,” resistance is punished, and those sent to the “Back Half” don’t come back—pure dread in the most clinical, realistic packaging.

What makes it special is the structure and heart: alongside Luke’s fight to survive, ex-cop Tim Jamieson drifts into a small town looking for a fresh start—until his path is destined to collide with Luke’s, turning the novel into a fast, emotional thriller about power, morality, and kids refusing to be broken. King’s own framing nods to the psychic terror of Firestarter and the kid-powered spirit of It—and it delivers that classic “one more chapter” momentum.