julipetric 's review for:

The Dark Tower by Stephen King

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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: Complicated

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[not a review of this book in particular but of my experience reading the whole series]

Emotionally finished my journey to the dark tower. One of the best books in the main series and maybe the one I enjoyed the most from the extended reading list (all in all, I chose to read 16 from the bigger SK universe, including the 8 DT ones). Some were good, others not so much, but reading all those works added a lot of weight to the main series, and made the whole thing more of a process that one has to go through, with ups, downs, and side quests, same as the characters on the series. Many times it is said that you should not read something that you don't enjoy, but taking the time to go though everything truly feels like reaching the tower yourself, alongside the characters; I'm happy I stuck with it until the end. 

It'll stay with me for some time. Ambitious, weird, fun, sad, epic, moving, and fundamentally human.