Book Review: Dark Tower Series, Book II: The Drawing of the Three.
Oct 15th, 2010 by admin
Author: Stephen King
Category: Fiction/Fantasy
Picking up moments from where The Gunslinger left off, The Drawing of the Three hits the ground running and never looks back. For the first time the magnitude of the epic reveals itself in the growing cast of formidable characters that soon populate this novel. Here is Roland, worn and tired and now injured, for very early on, an attack upon him by creatures he often thinks of as ‘lobstrosities’ puts him in peril, catching him quite off guard. A ticking countdown to his own death begins and this novel unfolds as a race against time, to save himself from the poison that runs through his veins and to draw…not his guns, this time, but his ka-tet.
Along the beach, three doors, one marked “The Prisoner”, one marked “The Lady of Shadows” and one marked “The Pusher” just as Walter had revealed in the prior tome. From each door, the gunslinger will draw a person as Ka (fate) has dictated and they shall become his ka-tet (a group fated and bound to each other). But the drawing of the three is not as easy as it might seem, each of the three comes with their own baggage and they do not necessarily share Roland’s thirst for the Dark Tower.
As the story unfolds, the gunslinger, Eddie Dean and Odetta Holmes criss-cross through doors, taking this adventure between worlds, through portals and filling it with action and adventure that will thrill from beginning to end with it’s seemingly lack of down time. Perhaps it is the fact that this story unfolds in a complicated web of conflict that it makes it so difficult to put down. This story adds meat to the content of the quest and brings forth new faces. Soon enough, hints are being dropped through the story that avid King readers will eat up like tasty Easter Eggs, for scattered through this story and all the following volumes, are plenty of paths from his other books that all lead to this epic tale.
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Comments: Rich and enticing, this story picks up where the last one left off and only elevates the story to a whole new level.