Book Review - The Song of Susannah

The Song of Susannah

(The Dark Tower VI)

Stephen King

8 Stars
544 Pages
Western / Mystery / Thriller / Epic Saga / High Fantasy

With the business in the Calla complete, we discover that Susannah has gone missing, taken captive by the manipulative Mia in the confusing aftermath of the great battle. Jake, Eddie and Roland race against the clock - time has grown very short for the tower while their minds were occupied elsewhere - Find Susannah, protect the rose, keep Calvin Tower safe from agents of many worlds, convince Tower to sell the vacant lot, stop the breakers save the beams and get to the tower... is it a quest two men, a boy, a bumbler and (if they find her) a woman can complete?

I want to start out by saying that this was still a fantastic read, an amazing book and a must read novel. Compared two the past couple of novels that started out running, and with such a big cliffhanger at the end of the last book, I found that this story took longer than expected to get going and there were a few parts that dragged on. Along with the mind boggling completeness of the world King has built, and the gripping maddening wonderful plot. We meet a host of new and wonderful characters that I fell in love with. Other the Eddie, Jake, Sus and Oi the first three novels didn't have many other characters to hold onto, we found a few in Wizard and Glass but sadly they where all characters of the past who had already travelled out of the story. In the Calla we where introduced to some who will come into themselves in this novel, Mia, Mordred, Callahan. The Talisman and the Black House in drawn in along with The Breakers.  I can't wait for the conclusion to the tale, I haven't been able to put the series down so far!