Black House
Ratings84
Average rating4
The first book wasn’t bad, so I wanted to try this one. I hate to say that I don’t like a King book, but I don’t like this one.
What sticks out to me the most is how slow it is. This book could have been cut in half, and I would still say it’s to long. It takes a third of the book to start getting into the main part of the story. The narration is another thing that felt wrong. The sweeping the reader along through key holes and over hills was interesting as first then jarring. It kept pulling me out of the story with these almost fourth wall breaks as things got darker.
The last book was a touch of King multiverse, but this one just shoved the tower down your throat. It was too much King as much as that hurts to say and yet not enough. The best parts of King like the lifelike characters and heart that King can give to even simple stories is missing from this. Instead, we get to much dark tower multiverse that it pulls away from he stories.
I would not recommend reading this one.
Pros and cons, this book has them, and there's plenty of reviews. My only input, and more for my own future recall of this particular book is simply, I do not believe I've ever read a book with such a developed non-character narrator, or never a book of King's that seemed such a joy to write.
The first 100 pages are a thing of beauty. Being hyper critical, it gets a bit boggy in places but overall its top quality stuff.
I want book 3 and I want it NOW.
I love this book most out of the peripheral Dark Tower books. Of course I've been a fan of Peter Straub since High School, and I can see his touches here, but it's an excellent journey from simple mystery into Dark Tower madness, that works even if you haven't read the Talisman.