A review by 8bitbrainstem
The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

4.0

Impossible to believe the rebound from how poor my impressions of The Gunslinger were to the fantastical masterpiece of The Drawing of the Three, but here we are. All thanks and credit to Black House for so delightfully referencing the events of this series that it managed to draw me back into the world of the Dark Tower with absolute abandon. I’m now eagerly ready to plow through with Rowland’s story to its inevitable conclusion. Not only does The Drawing of the Three maintain a cohesive narrative structure that blessedly reads like any other Stephen King novel, but it also manages to marry the fantastical elements of the Gunslinger to the plot line so the anachronisms that plagued the previous novel make much more sense. Perhaps all my wildly valid complaints from before were symptoms of King’s attempt to delve into a form of writing so unlike his earlier self, but I’m still reserving a small degree of skepticism until the series can prove me wrong.