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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
that was sooooo good - the last one hundred pages or so I couldn't stop from smiling. the last 50 pages or so are absolutely brilliant. i have to go back and reread 'salem's lot at some point also.
In this one we find Roland and his ka-tet growing much more in tune with each other. They're still traveling along the beam toward the Dark Tower and find themselves in the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis. This town has a serious problem and a quartet of gunslingers (and one billybumbler) is just what they need to aid them.
We learn a bit more about each of the characters in this book. Roland can dance, Jake is really still a boy despite all he's been through, Eddie can be quite the politician when needed, and Susannah hides yet another within her skull. This book is almost three stories in one binding.
I had forgotten much about this installment of The Dark Tower series. Most importantly, that it ends in a cliffhanger. I hate that. SK also does a lot of foreshadowing with ominous single lines at the ends of chapters. I kind of hate that too. But for all his little idiosyncrasies I still really liked this book. It gets us further along the path to the tower and Roland is given the chance to be a little more human.
We learn a bit more about each of the characters in this book. Roland can dance, Jake is really still a boy despite all he's been through, Eddie can be quite the politician when needed, and Susannah hides yet another within her skull. This book is almost three stories in one binding.
I had forgotten much about this installment of The Dark Tower series. Most importantly, that it ends in a cliffhanger. I hate that. SK also does a lot of foreshadowing with ominous single lines at the ends of chapters. I kind of hate that too. But for all his little idiosyncrasies I still really liked this book. It gets us further along the path to the tower and Roland is given the chance to be a little more human.
For the first 700 hundred pages, it's pretty good-to-great, but then it becomes maybe one of the best dark fantasy novels of all time. I was speechless. This one mixes some of the themes of Wizard and Glass and the Western adventure of The Waste Lands. Someone else has pointed out it is Seven Samurai. It is a serious novel on the skeleton of a story about a cowboy fighting robots.
It took almost 2 months but I did it. Leave it to King to write a 7 volume series with 2 of the books pushing a thousand pages. My God the detail, depth and development.
Roland and his crew wind up in a desolate town where children get snatched and returned but not as they were. It's in this book that we also get a crossover with one of King's other universes through the character, Father Callahan, from Salem's Lot, which was pretty cool There were strong King vibes in this book and more tales that gave this series so much more depth. Tensions were high as this second by second journey up to a great battle against the lowmen approached and darkness seemed to be falling over Roland and his crew. Grand and spirit-breaking.
Full Review:
https://thescarletreaderreviews.wordpress.com/2019/11/07/forgive-me-father-for-i-have-a-battle-to-prepare-for-wolves-of-calla-a-book-review/
Full Review:
https://thescarletreaderreviews.wordpress.com/2019/11/07/forgive-me-father-for-i-have-a-battle-to-prepare-for-wolves-of-calla-a-book-review/
adventurous
medium-paced
A fun and entertaining stop along the Path of the Beam. My fourth favorite of all the books.
9.5 screaming, sharpened plates out of 10
9.5 screaming, sharpened plates out of 10
I'm loving this series, say true. This had a Western feel - kind of like 18th century Scots meets the American West with some time travel thrown in for good measure. Not to mention characters from other King novels making an appearance (luckily not the clown from IT, if it do ya fine.) It's enough to make your head spin, ye ken, but the story continues to take shape, and I'm enthralled. I say thankya big-big to all who recommended this series!
I actually liked this one better on re reading it.
The continuing epic-fantasy, science-fiction, post-apocalyptic Western with a dash of horror.
The sporadic references to other works by King have now become a full tie-in. And either you will really enjoy that and think it's brilliant - or you will find it tedious and self-aggrandizing.
If you are a fan of all of King's work - then you will love the change in direction this series has taken.
I just find myself like Roland - wanting to twirl my fingers at this series to tell it to hurry up & get on with it.
The sporadic references to other works by King have now become a full tie-in. And either you will really enjoy that and think it's brilliant - or you will find it tedious and self-aggrandizing.
If you are a fan of all of King's work - then you will love the change in direction this series has taken.
I just find myself like Roland - wanting to twirl my fingers at this series to tell it to hurry up & get on with it.