Author: Stephen King

Genre: Fiction/Horror/Thriller

Age Category: Teen - Adult

Summary: On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, the True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death.
Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant shining power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep."
Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to battle for Abra's soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of The Shining and satisfy anyone new to this icon in the King canon.

Series:  #1:  The Shining

My review: 5/5
The way that The Shining ended, I thought that the sequel, Doctor Sleep, wasn't going to be good. Stephen King explained more in depth the abilities that people can possess if they have the shining. The story line is amazing. You get to see how Danny grew up. When he was a kid, he never wanted to be like his father, Jack; but he ended up in a similar mental state Jack was in. 
The connection between Dan and Abra is unique.  And the reason why is explained towards the end of the book.