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A review by alykat_reads
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Personally, I'm really glad that I didn't read spoilers or any reviews of this before finishing the book. And because of that, I'll be hiding everything in spoilers. Read at your own risk.
Wow. It's been a journey, that's for sure. This wasn't my favorite book of the entire series, and perhaps because it was the last and knowing nothing else was coming after this, I felt some plot points and some of the writing just wasn't as good as others in the series. A few convenient circumstances is alright, but it felt like there were too many.
It really wouldn't be a King novel without a few of my favorites dying and/or being killed off, and that always gets the emotions going. Or making references to many of his other works (shoutout to Insomnia for being the first King book I ever read, and am looking forward to re-reading again at some point).
Taking into account the entire series.. It's about 5,000 pages. Is there ever going to be a satisfactory for all ending to a series that big? No. I've definitely been a person that has really not liked a book due to ambiguous / 'unfinished' ending. I don't necessarily think that this felt unfinished to me, but can totally see how others would see it that way; anticlimactic would probably be a better term. But as he writes, it's not about the ending, it's about the journey. And it's a long journey that I greatly enjoyed. Perhaps that part in the book made me more apt to accept the anticlimactic ending. Idk. I'm definitely a biased Constant Reader, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
It really wouldn't be a King novel without a few of my favorites dying and/or being killed off, and that always gets the emotions going. Or making references to many of his other works (shoutout to Insomnia for being the first King book I ever read, and am looking forward to re-reading again at some point).
Taking into account the entire series.. It's about 5,000 pages. Is there ever going to be a satisfactory for all ending to a series that big? No. I've definitely been a person that has really not liked a book due to ambiguous / 'unfinished' ending. I don't necessarily think that this felt unfinished to me, but can totally see how others would see it that way; anticlimactic would probably be a better term. But as he writes, it's not about the ending, it's about the journey. And it's a long journey that I greatly enjoyed. Perhaps that part in the book made me more apt to accept the anticlimactic ending. Idk. I'm definitely a biased Constant Reader, so take what I say with a grain of salt.