Song of Susannah

Executive Summary: This book has some good parts, and is enjoyable if you've gotten this far in the series, but in my opinion it's the weakest of the 7.Audio book: Not much to say about this that hasn't been said in my previous reviews really. George Guidall is a pretty good reader, but I still miss the voices of Eddie and Susannah that Frank Muller did.Mr. Guidall does have an excellent voice for the narration of the story, and Roland, probably better than Mr. Muller, but I find him lacking on the voices for all the rest of the characters.Full ReviewThis book is one of the shortest in the series, and it shows. It feels more like a transition and staging book for [b:The Dark Tower 5091 The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7) Stephen King http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348208581s/5091.jpg 6309701] that follows. By itself, I don't think it would stand up very well.Thankfully Mr. King released the final 3 books over the course of about 2-3 years, so I wasn't stuck waiting for the next volume quite so long as in the past (I waited 5+ years for [b:Wolves of the Calla 4978 Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5) Stephen King http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348608372s/4978.jpg 2754911]).I feel like very little happens in this book, and it's more about putting things into place. Maybe that's why it's so short. Of course some might disagree with my calling a 400 page book short.After the battle with the Wolves the Ka-tet is split, and most of the events in the book take place almost entirely in our own world.This book starts running rather than inching in the direction of what I would call Deus Ex Machina in most other books/series. It also gets incredibly Meta. For me however, it just works.The series builds on the idea of multiple worlds/universes/levels of the tower and Mr. King takes that to an extreme with this book.I can see this being polarizing. In fact my friend who read it recently was very upset by that part of the story, but I think it fits the story of the tower. Or is it just a story? Say true, and I say thank ya.