King throws himself into a tale of teenage love with all his heart and this can either be a good thing or a bad thing depending on your viewpoint. It could almost be read as a stand alone novel and bears much resemblance with the recently released Wind Through The Keyhole. I am pleased to say that now, although Wizard and Glass is not my favourite book in the Dark Tower series, I am certainly better able to appreciate it for what it is and what it brings to the series. This is does by spending a large portion of the book recounting the time when Roland, in his youth, along with his apprentice gunslinger friends, Cuthbert and Alain, visited the town of Mejis on a mission whose main aim is to move them far from Gilead and the danger there. The second reason for my lack of enthusiasm first time around may lie in the fact that book four does not drive the story forward very far - its purpose being to further fill out Roland's character and history. Basically, I was found myself no longer submerged in the Dark Tower worlds and found it a little difficult to get back into. This is the disadvantage of reading a series as it is published, and if you do not have the time to re-read previous instalments then it may well be that the reading enjoyment is not as high as when you can simply turn the last page on book three and reach over, open, and begin reading book four. There are two reasons that might explain this, the first being that a year had passed since I had finished The Waste Lands and much momentum had been lost, and much that had happened had been forgotten. The first three books, The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three and The Waste Lands I found brilliant but have to be honest and admit that Wizard and Glass, on first read, was not a great experience. This is my fourth pass and it is a series that just keeps giving and giving. If books are judged solely by their re-readability value then the Dark Tower books must be up there at the very top.
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