Wizard And Glass

Book 4 in the Dark Tower series is both annoying as loveable.
Obviously the book picked up the story with Blain the mono, where it was left of in the Wastelands.
I liked the resolution of that storyline,although it was spun out a tad too long to my tasting.

Then of course the meat of the book is in the back story of Roland and his friends when they were sent away from Gilead.
Here comes the annoying part, first of all,the language, it irritated me quite a lot...in the end I got used to it, sort off, because, and here is the second nuisance, it is way too long.
For me, that middle part of the book could have been shortened with at least 100 to 150 pages. Yes, we get it, they were in love, yes we get it, they made love...a lot.

Now the good thing, the story puts a fundament under the Roland, Dark Tower, story arch.
It expanded on the world building and brought depth and tantalising connections with other King books.
In the end it was wrapped up quite well, so that lifted the book above the mediocre and it ended up as a 4 star book for me.