Melissa B. (dragoneyes) - , reviewed on 7/16/2012 + 808 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

As a Dark Tower fan, I was greatly anticipating the release of this book. I was curious to see where King was going to go with this and was happy at the end result. This story fits in between books 4 & 5 of the Dark Tower series. It doesn't really go into much broader detail about the ka-tet but is more of a story within a story within another story. It is done up well and at the end we know a little more about the young Roland and his mother. It starts off with the ka-tet making their journey and having to seek shelter from an upcoming storm. When found they cozy in and wait for the storm to pass and in the meantime Roland tells a story from when he was younger. In that story his younger self tells of another story. It was very enjoyable to go back to Mid-world and wouldn't mind doing it again.
As for the audio cd on this book - please note that it is read by King himself. And while King does a much better job writing than reading aloud, it is still tolerable but not the best read audio out there.

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