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We’ve started book 2 with some new characters who are in this world and giving our main characters stories about the life they live and some background to the world, which is assumed they’re talking about the waste lands. To be honest, it was a lot of long passages that didn’t do much for the overall story. Maybe it’ll come into play, but it was tediously long.

Book 1 is in the review mirror; this ended with Eddie, Roland and Susannah fighting off demons, and Jake on the other side fighting to get to their world. It was a lot of back and forth time travel that was really fast-paced, yet easy to follow. Now that they’re all together, we’re so curious what book 2 has in store for us!

We’ve just entered part 3 of book 1 where it’s a back and forth of Jake in the real world and Roland and co. in the mid-world. They’re going to collide at some point, we feel it, and it will have something to do with the key they both possess. It has powers that no one understands yet, but we have faith it will come together soon.

We get more from Jake and he’s still torn between the real world, where he’s missed a bunch of school work and the fantasy world, where he’s been writing all this down. Not really sure the relevance with Charlie the Choo Choo is, we probably won’t ever know. It’s kinda reads as a metaphor, but for what we’re not sure just yet.

Part two starts with Jake and what happened to him. The reader finds this so fascinating; Jake is such an interesting character. He’s torn between two selves and we see how it happened, we just don’t know why yet, and we’re so curious to see what it leads to and how it fits into the bigger picture with Roland and company. Again, some very fast paced storytelling.

We’ve come to the end of part one of book one… not sure what’s happening or what’s going to happen, but excited to find out. This is still reading fast-paced, even though we want to read it slow to figure out what everything means. Everything is happening so fast it gets lost in the shuffle a bit. Excited for Jake to possibly make an appearance.

Roland’s confused… this reader is confused. They’re trying to read this slow so they don’t miss anything, but we’ve already got time travel and rehashing the right time for things. Roland is trying to explain everything to Eddie and Susannah but they don’t quite grasp it either. This is fast-paced and intriguing so far, but also confusing.

The 3rd book in the Dark Tower series and we’re off to a pretty interesting start. Roland, Eddie and Susannah are together and they’ve just been attacked by what appears to be a robot bear. The quest is to reach the Dark Tower and we’re very curious how this is going to be achieved. This is a reread for this reader, but a refresher is much needed.

We’re not 100% what we even read… but it wasn’t bad, it was weirdly interesting and had the reader on edge about this freaky camera and what it all meant. That epilogue was what did the reader in to how creepy this story was. Pop Merrill was still creepy and weird until the end, which made this terrifying. This had good pacing, which had the reader hooked until the very end.

What is up with this camera?! It takes photos from another world and only of this dog and a fence? We’re still not quite sure the deal with it, but we do get a load of a back story on Pop Merrill; it seems people don’t really like him or well that’s the vibe we’re getting so far. There isn’t much left to go, so curious how this will wrap up and possibly shock the reader.

The Sun Dog is the last novella in this collection and we’re following this 15-year-old boy, Kevin who’s just received a Polaroid camera for his birthday… but of course something is wrong with the camera, it’s taking photos from the past or of things not there. Pop Merrill is an interesting character; we can’t tell if he’s evil or not yet. It’s nice to be back in Castle Rock, too. Curious what’s next

The Sun Dog is the last novella in this collection and we’re following this 15-year-old boy, Kevin who’s just received a Polaroid camera for his birthday… but of course something is wrong with the camera, it’s taking photos from the past or of things not there. Pop Merrill is an interesting character; we can’t tell if he’s evil or not yet. It’s nice to be back in Castle Rock, too. Curious what’s next.

Interesting. So King kinda played not paying your fine at the library back into all this so it had a small role. Ardelia is out for Sam to keep the evil being alive, but will take anyone if it needs to. This was a good story, not a favourite, but it was fast-paced with characters who were easy to care about. The reader did like the ending; it felt earned and was just gruesome enough.

Okay, so this took a drastic turn. This would have been cooler if it was about the consequences of an overdue library book. But alas, we get the backstory of Ardelia, who was a real person at some point… but now there’s an evil being living inside her who’s after Sam. The premise is slightly creepy and gripping. Really curious how it will end!

Wait, so is the premise of this story about the consequences of an overdue library book? The reader kinda likes that and King is doing such a good job with it so far. The back and forth timeline and seeing Sam kinda travel back in time without realizing it is creepy on its own. Adding the scary Library Policeman kinda feels like an extra layer. We’re hooked to find out what happens next.

We’re onto our third story in this collection, The Library Policeman, and so far, we’re hooked to see what is going to transpire between our main character Sam, and the librarian, Ardelia… who could be real or not. It’s very wrapped up in a mystery that we can’t wait to unravel. Good pacing and characters so far.