The Gunslinger
(The Dark Tower I)
Stephen King
231 Pages
Fiction / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / Mystery
I have this series as an omnibus, which has been sitting on my TBR shelf being daunting and terrifying for at least a couple of years now. I was very pleasantly surprised at how fast I got through this first book. It was the perfect size to introduce me to this amazing but vast world. We meet Roland - who I have read about in quite a few other King novels, including The Talisman, The Black House and Little Sisters of Eluria - he is our main character and I love him. Roland is a Gunslinger, and he is chasing the "Man in Black". Jumping between the past and the present we learn about the land, the world, the people and its customs. I don't want to go into detail because I would be giving too much away but it is action packed and beautiful.
Any lover of epic fantasy - The Songs of Ice and Fire aka Game of Thrones, Redwall, or The Books of Pellinor - will love these novels. A totally different breed of King novel, that still holds onto the essence of King.
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