A review by boomerlusink
Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

4.0

Only this man would write a 600 page prequel/flashback in the middle of a 900 page book in his 7 book fantasy epic series. Almost a dashing interlude (again, if 600 pages could be considered an interlude), the majority of this book is a reversal, leaving behind the gritty, often horrific events our heroes find themselves in to tell the romantic cowboy adventures of our main gunslinger as they occurred long before the events of the first Dark Tower book. Uncharacteristically lovely, King writes a passionate and mythically devote relationship between a young Roland and Susan Delgado, framed within the beginnings of decay in their strange world and a conspiracy that they find themselves entangled in and threatens to spell death and danger not only for them, but for the entirety of Mid-World. Coming out of this Greek tragedy, we are thrown right back into the heroes' search for the Dark Tower with a bemusing and powerful reminder that with the decay of the Tower, realities blur into each other to strange yet oddly familiar effect. This book brought the adventure almost to a standstill, and was still the most engaging yet.