So here I was thinking that I could handle Stephen King; even though I don't like horror. I can make an exception for Stephen King. I've seen Cujo, Pet Sematary, & Carrie (ok, so it was a long long time ago and my cousins forced me to watch them.) The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption are on my list of all time favorite movies. And plus The Gunslinger was supposed to be about a guy chasing another guy across the desert. I mean, what's so scary about that? So I was prepared for whatever The King was going to throw my way.


Or so I thought...I immediately loved the book. Roland is the ultimate badass and he kills anybody that gets in his way. And then I met Jake. Aww Jake. I liked him immediately. And then Roland asked him how he ended up in the desert. (view spoiler)[The story then goes into graphic detail of Jake being run over by a car. WTF!!! (hide spoiler)]

Yeah so...I just couldn't continue after that. The only other thing I dislike more than horror is when awful things happen to children. Maybe if I would have known it was going to happen I would have been ok, but that scene just came out of nowhere. Before picking up this book I had just read The Book Thief, so the last thing I needed was to read another story where something awful happens to a child.

So 3 stars...because I really enjoyed the first part of this book.