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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
4.5 stars
This book is up there with "The Drawing of the Three" as one of the best in the series so far. I liked seeing a more traditional format to this entry as well. The group needs to do X and item Y is necessary to do that; someone has item Y and needs them to do Z in order to earn it. Classic quest storyline :) You can tell that Mr. King has a plan for the rest of this series now too. Things are heading in a specific direction and he's answering mysteries more than he's introducing new ones.
My only problem with this book is that Callahan's story takes up way too many pages for what it's worth in the plot. It drug the story out too much and forced the conclusion to happen quite abruptly. The confrontation with the titular Wolves takes up a handful of pages at the very end.
I am becoming a fan of this series at this point :) Sounds strange to say at book 5 of 7 but that's how it feels. The first book didn't feel like it was intended to be anything more than an exercise in stretching one line into a full novel. Book 2 showed that Mr. King had an interest in getting more ideas out of his head, but that's about it until book 5. Now he has a story to tell and you can tell he's bursting to get it all out there. I'm all in with him.
This book is up there with "The Drawing of the Three" as one of the best in the series so far. I liked seeing a more traditional format to this entry as well. The group needs to do X and item Y is necessary to do that; someone has item Y and needs them to do Z in order to earn it. Classic quest storyline :) You can tell that Mr. King has a plan for the rest of this series now too. Things are heading in a specific direction and he's answering mysteries more than he's introducing new ones.
My only problem with this book is that Callahan's story takes up way too many pages for what it's worth in the plot. It drug the story out too much and forced the conclusion to happen quite abruptly. The confrontation with the titular Wolves takes up a handful of pages at the very end.
I am becoming a fan of this series at this point :) Sounds strange to say at book 5 of 7 but that's how it feels. The first book didn't feel like it was intended to be anything more than an exercise in stretching one line into a full novel. Book 2 showed that Mr. King had an interest in getting more ideas out of his head, but that's about it until book 5. Now he has a story to tell and you can tell he's bursting to get it all out there. I'm all in with him.
Simply: Loved it. My favorite in the Dark Tower series to date.
This is basically a retelling of The Seven Samurai. Roland and his band of gunslingers help a town of farmers to stand up to hooded men on horses who come once a generation to steal half of the children from the town.
The Wolves are of course androids that look roughly like Doctor Doom, or possibly his "Doombots" but directly calling them Doombots might have been a copywrite issue. Newsflash, sometimes Stephen King is not the most original storyteller.
The parts of this that I liked the best expand upon Salem's Lot as the character Father Calahan ended up in Roland's world after fighting vampires in Jerusalem's Lot.
The Wolves are of course androids that look roughly like Doctor Doom, or possibly his "Doombots" but directly calling them Doombots might have been a copywrite issue. Newsflash, sometimes Stephen King is not the most original storyteller.
The parts of this that I liked the best expand upon Salem's Lot as the character Father Calahan ended up in Roland's world after fighting vampires in Jerusalem's Lot.
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I feel like this may be the weakest volume in the Dark Tower sequence, but then the wait for this one was so long that it's hard to imagine how it wouldn't be disappointing. It's an odd episode in a sequence of many odd episodes. I'll have to read it again to be able to exactly explain why.
I have wrestled with this series since book two. Book one was intriguing and made me want to read more. From there on, I was torn between love and utter dislike, but I still wanted to know where the story would take me. Book five finally threw me off. I couldn't finish it and won't pick it up again. The story drags and drags and all the 'do ya fine' and 'say thank ya' REALLY annoyed me. I wanted to love The Dark Tower series, but I'm not interested in Roland or his ka-tet anymore. Sad, but true (for me).
Wolves of the Calla is a weird one. While it’s the first time I’ve cared about the Dark Tower present-day story since Drawing of the Three, the majority of the book amounts to little more than a side quest. At least we got Callahan out of it, who is a legitimately fascinating character. And luckily the todash segments help keep the fantasy kookiness grounded, overall making this just a bit more engaging than most of the entries so far.
3 out of 5
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3 out of 5
Bright-red Pennywise Clown Noses
Spoilers for whole series---
I find the Dark Tower series very uneven. Sometimes the prose is surprisingly good, sometimes it's just no....no. I feel like, if only King would have kept to Rolands fantasy world, these books would be somewhat good fantasy, but when he has to write in characters from his other books in sometimes strained ways (according to me), the story drops alot. I also cringe when they have to travel to New York all the friggin time, whats up with that? But the worst was when King wrote himself into the story, that was just laughable. As I said if he only would have kept himself to Rolands world, I would have appreciated this story alot more!
I find the Dark Tower series very uneven. Sometimes the prose is surprisingly good, sometimes it's just no....no. I feel like, if only King would have kept to Rolands fantasy world, these books would be somewhat good fantasy, but when he has to write in characters from his other books in sometimes strained ways (according to me), the story drops alot. I also cringe when they have to travel to New York all the friggin time, whats up with that? But the worst was when King wrote himself into the story, that was just laughable. As I said if he only would have kept himself to Rolands world, I would have appreciated this story alot more!