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Average rating3.5
Rosie Daniels flees from her husband, Norman after fourteen years in an abusive marriage. During one bout of violence, Norman caused Rosie to miscarry their only child. Escaping to a distant city, Rosie establishes a new life and forges new relationships. Norman Daniels, a police officer with a reputation for cruelty, uses his law-enforcement connections to track his wayward wife.
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Not sure where this was written in the sequence of his other books in the Dark Tower universe but it does include the spider and the spider's baby from the last 1 or 2 books in the series. And most importantly, it has the wonderful mix of you not being sure if this is in the land of time-space that we know, or if it's somewhere between known and some alternate reality.
I also enjoy that the main character is a woman pulling her self up out of physical and mental abuse and making a new life for herself.
One of my favorite works from my favorite author. Preternatural events aside, this woman's journey – a woman so utterly broken mentally, physically, and emotionally from years of systematic, and totally random domestic violence – to leave her situation with nothing but a bus ticket and restart her life in a strange city where she knows no soul and change her life no matter what, is POWERFUL. You don't have to be a Stephen King fan to appreciate this book, and it is inspirational to those who have experienced abuse. There is no “horror” in this book, aside from the very sick and demented behavior of her husband, a respected police officer. It IS, however a thriller and you won't be able to put it down.