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Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

abernathy_33's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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ichbinkreativ's review against another edition

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adventurous dark medium-paced

5.0

rwilhoyte's review against another edition

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3.0

It's amazing that, as long as GoodReads has existed, there's still no way of clearly changing your mind upon a reread regarding a rating. Apparently, this story was 5 stars for me when I first read it and now I'm knocking it down to three stars...mainly because it pumps the breaks so hard after the pacing of The Wastelands and spends a lot of time telling what is supposed to be an epic love story between two horny teenagers. I would argue that Susan and Roland aren't in love, they are in lust and 14. I can see why people read it as the Dark Tower epic love story because it's really similar to Romeo and Juliet. Wizard and Glass is mainly there to justify a change of attitude in Roland toward the rest of his new ka-tet but I'm not sure how much he actually changes or how much it matters to later events that he softens. I mostly read this novel thinking of Susan as a "refrigerator woman", a female character introduced and killed off to cause some emotional change in a male protagonist. I'm not a fan of that trope in comics and I find it kind of annoying here. The shady dealings happening in Mejis feel like filler, boring filler. Even Cuthbert and Alain are bored. I gave this book 3 stars because it does pick back up at the end and lead into a cool sequence.

moonlessknight's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

elensius's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

foobrizio's review against another edition

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3.0

Tanti pro e altrettanti contro per questo libro,che é il più controverso della saga,per ora.

liz_neidich's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

4.75

amongstchaosshereads's review

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4.75

Rhea - I hate her. Vile. 

Tears were shed in this 

arielle0's review

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adventurous dark sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

lactomar's review against another edition

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4.0

Still enjoying it. I think I liked the structure of Drawing of the Three the most, however Roland's character is developing just fine. I think King wrote about teenage romance fairly well, and his comments in the epilogue about how he had forgotten how that feeling felt, how he knew marriage and mature love but no longer the passion of youth were interesting.