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Gwendy's Final Task
by Stephen King
This is how the world ends…
TL;DR: A weak ending to what likely shouldn’t have been a trilogy, King and Chizmar drop the ball with what feels more like a propaganda piece.
I’m not one to belabor political points when it comes from a place of storytelling, but yeesh…it’s apparent that this was kind of just intended to either push an agenda or vent about the other side of the political aisle. It’s rough and honestly made it really unpleasant to get through. The second book had the same takes and opinions with infinitely more elegance and grace. Blech, just not a good book and honestly, really disappointing.
Characters: Gwendy’s kind of insufferable in here. I get what they were going for and it’s hard to depict what they did in a book, but it wasn’t great, felt like what I imagine a cat feels when you pet them the wrong way. Also, most of the other characters are just huge nonfactors. Meh overall.
Setting: I’m turned off by space, I just am. It also felt like a really weird ending place for the series; home and growing up to work and home to space. What the heck dude?
Story: I couldn’t get behind it. I just wasn’t motivated to care and honestly, it wasn’t that great. The whole thing dragged so dang much. The ending was actually gracefully done, but the rest of it was just painful.
Writing: Gah, I hated it, what more is there to say? It was contrived, full of flashbacks, and as I said, felt like a soapbox the entire time. Rough man.
This isn’t even close to a good book, and I won’t make it out to be. The only reason this falls anywhere away from the bottom of my least favorite books is because the ending was done decently well. It’s pretty sad that the last two chapters and epilogue are the on only things saving this from subpar mediocrity in my eyes. Oh well.
1.0 🌟
TL;DR: A weak ending to what likely shouldn’t have been a trilogy, King and Chizmar drop the ball with what feels more like a propaganda piece.
I’m not one to belabor political points when it comes from a place of storytelling, but yeesh…it’s apparent that this was kind of just intended to either push an agenda or vent about the other side of the political aisle. It’s rough and honestly made it really unpleasant to get through. The second book had the same takes and opinions with infinitely more elegance and grace. Blech, just not a good book and honestly, really disappointing.
Characters: Gwendy’s kind of insufferable in here. I get what they were going for and it’s hard to depict what they did in a book, but it wasn’t great, felt like what I imagine a cat feels when you pet them the wrong way. Also, most of the other characters are just huge nonfactors. Meh overall.
Setting: I’m turned off by space, I just am. It also felt like a really weird ending place for the series; home and growing up to work and home to space. What the heck dude?
Story: I couldn’t get behind it. I just wasn’t motivated to care and honestly, it wasn’t that great. The whole thing dragged so dang much. The ending was actually gracefully done, but the rest of it was just painful.
Writing: Gah, I hated it, what more is there to say? It was contrived, full of flashbacks, and as I said, felt like a soapbox the entire time. Rough man.
This isn’t even close to a good book, and I won’t make it out to be. The only reason this falls anywhere away from the bottom of my least favorite books is because the ending was done decently well. It’s pretty sad that the last two chapters and epilogue are the on only things saving this from subpar mediocrity in my eyes. Oh well.
1.0 🌟