Well I know that I finished this book in June, and things have been crazy, I now have at east 8 other books to write about too. But I will start with the oldest and just try and catch up. This whole parenting thing takes up a lot of my time.
This is the next in my BOTM club reads. This is where I start to dislike the series. Kings writing really takes a turn for the worst in my opinion. This book picks up after Wind Through the Keyhole our Ka-Tet has come to a small farming community, Calla, that has a major problem. Every so often, riders called Wolves because of the masks they wear, comes and steals half their children. Most of the children in Calla are born as twins, the Wolves steal one half of the pair and send it back years later "roont", which means they are now mentally disabled, unusually large, and die at a very young age. As usual, the Gunslingers are asked to solve the problem, but it is never as clear as just getting rid of some bad people, the Wolves are agents of the Crimson King, and there is the added complication of Susannah being pregnant, and it isn't a wanted pregnancy.
King pulls in a lot of info from his other books and even writes himself into the story line. That is really annoys me. It is very egotistical and makes me boil. King also steals ideas from from other series, in fact one of the weapons is called a Sneetch, Harry Potter Edition. That upsets me a ton too, King is an established writer, and has fame all his own, does he really need to steal ideas from other writers? It feels false to me, like King couldn't think up a name for his weapon so he just stole J.K Rowlings idea, but gave a shout out to make it ok. It just feels sneaky and dirty. The Star Wars references don't bother me as mush, because Star was has become some a icon and been pillaged and plundered by so many. So anyways again not a favorite book, and really, if the series had ended with this one, I would have been just fine.
This is the next in my BOTM club reads. This is where I start to dislike the series. Kings writing really takes a turn for the worst in my opinion. This book picks up after Wind Through the Keyhole our Ka-Tet has come to a small farming community, Calla, that has a major problem. Every so often, riders called Wolves because of the masks they wear, comes and steals half their children. Most of the children in Calla are born as twins, the Wolves steal one half of the pair and send it back years later "roont", which means they are now mentally disabled, unusually large, and die at a very young age. As usual, the Gunslingers are asked to solve the problem, but it is never as clear as just getting rid of some bad people, the Wolves are agents of the Crimson King, and there is the added complication of Susannah being pregnant, and it isn't a wanted pregnancy.
King pulls in a lot of info from his other books and even writes himself into the story line. That is really annoys me. It is very egotistical and makes me boil. King also steals ideas from from other series, in fact one of the weapons is called a Sneetch, Harry Potter Edition. That upsets me a ton too, King is an established writer, and has fame all his own, does he really need to steal ideas from other writers? It feels false to me, like King couldn't think up a name for his weapon so he just stole J.K Rowlings idea, but gave a shout out to make it ok. It just feels sneaky and dirty. The Star Wars references don't bother me as mush, because Star was has become some a icon and been pillaged and plundered by so many. So anyways again not a favorite book, and really, if the series had ended with this one, I would have been just fine.
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