The story is well told and very intense, even if you kind of know what the result of the fight against the wolves will be from the beginning. This is some of the best King that I've read in a long while. What really is the Wolves, and why is it that nobody has ever manged to hide a child from them? Who is the Old Fella and can whatever he's in his church help the Ka-tet in its quest?

Only, this is the quest for the Dark Tower, so there is of cause a few twists to it all. The Gunslingers will teach the locals to fight, giving them a chance to get their self respect back and to protect their city. So the stage is set for a showdown in the age old style of Seven Samurai or The Magnificent Seven (or even “Three Amigos”). If only the world hadn't moved on and if only there where still gunslingers around. what if they could get somebody to fight for them, like gunslingers. Except something vital seems to be missing from their brains, like their minds.īut as it is with small villages, they tend to be populated by farmers and not hardened warriors, so there doesn't seem to much to do about it. They do this once every generation, and they always deliver them back after a couple of weeks. The have just gotten the message, that a month from now the “Wolves” will swing by and steal half their children. Except the people of Calla Bryn Sturgis, a small village just down the road, from where our heroes are a the moment. Except for Susannah that is – she isn't getting much sleep these days.

The are getting some much deserved quiet time. Having survived the last pages of Wizard and Glass our marry Ka-tet is moving quietly along the path of the Beam. It's all action, it's all about the Ka-tet and it's about The Dark Tower from front to back. It has been six, nearly seven, years since the last volume in the Dark Tower series and if you, like me, didn't even like the fourth volume, it has been an even longer wait.

Wolves of the calla