15 June 2015
This is the fourth book in the Dark Tower series, Stephen King's one epic saga. The largest chunk of this story is actually the background of Roland, which is heavily referenced up to this point but never explained. So maybe 550 of the 700 pages of this book are devoted to this story.
My favorite part about Stephen King is he will tell you what is going to happen, but you will still read it anyway! From the very beginning, you know the girl dies and even that she burns, but the details of why never come out. As I read this book, you eventually met Susan and, despite knowing she dies, hope that somehow King was wrong. You hope that something has changed. You don't want her to die and as the time gets closer you read with increasing trepidation. You are convinced the very next time she screws up, she's dead . . . but then she's not. And the next time, and the next, until you're emotionally exhausted when. . . . BAM she's dead. And you don't even know what to do with yourself.
I love Stephen King.
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