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Author: Stephen King
Category: Fiction – Fantasy

After the battle of Cally Bryn Surgis against the Wolves of Thunderclap, Roland’s ka-tet must regroup and lick their wounds, if only they were given time to do so. The prior story sets up a number of challenges that the tet is now faced with and which not only plunges them into their next task but also ends up splitting them up.

King returns to what he does best, going once more for the heart of the matter and focusing largely on Susannah, who has held a dark secret until now and which is now coming to light. For the sake of avoiding spoilers, I will only say that this secret puts her and the rest of the quest in peril and while she struggles to contain and fix this, Roland and Eddie are trying to tackle other issue that have to do with their tet, namely the rose which they encounter in The Wastelands and the corporation that is hoping to fight back against Sombra and its allies.

Finally, after a long and enduring journey, the quest seems to be coming to a head, but the troubles only seem to mount up and the tet is tested as never before while Father Callahan, Jake Chambers and Oy do their best elsewhere to do their part to bring down their enemy. In a story that often jumps from one world to another, one set of characters to the next, the excitement is kept on high most of the time and thankfully Mr. King has decided to let the story be the story it must be and not fill it up with fluff. This results in a story that is shorter than the others but definitely satisfactory and one that sets up the final tome wonderfully. This book is not without its problems but they are for the most part minute.

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Comments: Without breaking into spoilers, there are things I would love to discuss here and can’t, but I do have a bit of an issue with things that were brought up early on in the story and seem to be abandoned here and in the following story a bit too easily. Nevertheless, this book is still a good read.