Well...

Not what I expected but this book was a good read. SK did a great job with the new characters.

One of the worst King books

For the first time I actually skipped over long sections of text in a S.King book, because it was so boring. Also, the fact that he weaves himself into the story is really irritating and doesn't help the story line at all. A real disappointment.

Back to Roland's World

As Stephen King has told his constant readers, he sees the Dark Tower series as his life's work. Fans are so happy that he went back to writing this series.

Wolves of the Calla takes place at the borderlands between Midworld, where we first met Roland the Gunslinger, and Endworld, where the Dark Tower lies, and where Roland's quest will take him. We spend most of the book in these borderlands with sidetrips to New York and elsewhere in America.

We learn at the beginning of the book that the "wolves" are coming to a small town on that border and will take approximately half of the children away where they will be "roont," losing their minds and wrecking their bodies. The farmers and townsmen have endured this for generations because the wolves have exotic weapons and may be supernatural. However, this time some of the townspeople are ready to stand up to the wolves.

Into this fight comes Roland and his ka-tet, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake of New York. It becomes clear that they will have to take on this side-quest of saving the children of the town from the wolves, but they are outnumbered, and it is unclear how much help the townspeople will be.

Complicating matters is that something seems seriously wrong with Susannah, that a rose in New York that appears to have a connection to the Dark Tower is imperiled and other matters.

We also meet Father Callahan from 'Salem's Lot again. And if you haven't read Salem's Lot but are reading the Dark Tower series, I would suggest reading it before turning to this book. In some of King's best writing, we learn the tragic story of what happened to Father Callahan after he left that cursed town.

I highly recommend this book. King draws us back in to Roland's world with a vengeance.