Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5)

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Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World, the almost timeless landscape that seems to stretch from the wreckage of civility that defined Roland's youth to the crimson chaos that seems the future's only promise. Followers of Stephen King's epic series know Roland well, or as well as this enigmatic hero can be known. They also know the companions who have been drawn to his quest for the Dark Tower: Eddie Dean and his wife, Susannah; Jake Chambers, the boy who has come twice through the doorway of death into Roland's world; and Oy, the Billy Bumbler.

In this long-awaited fifth novel in the saga, their path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis, a tranquil valley community of farmers and ranchers on Mid-World's borderlands. Beyond the town the rocky ground rises towards the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is slowly stealing the community's soul. One of the town's residents is Pere Callahan, a ruined priest who, like Susannah, Eddie and Jake, passed through one of the portals that lead both into and out of Roland's world.

As Father Callahan tells the ka-tet the astonishing story of what happened following his shamed departure from Maine in 1977, his connection to the Dark Tower becomes clear, as does the danger facing a single red rose in a vacant lot off Second Avenue in midtown Manhattan. For Calla Bryn Sturgis, danger gathers in the east like a storm cloud. The Wolves of Thunderclap and their unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is to risk all, but these are odds the gunslingers are used to, and they can give the Calla folken both courage and cunning. Their guns, however, will not be enough.

What Customers Say About Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5):

I find Wolves of the Calla to be the best book of the seven novels that make up the Dark Tower series. Engrossing from the very beginning, King delves even deeper into what makes each of the main characters what they are. Much more fast paced than Wizard and Glass.I highly recommend this book, as well as the entire series, to anyone.

I've read and re-read Stephen Kings books. The Dark Tower series is an especially good set of stories, and this book is no exception. I consumed it during my recent airport travel, and couldn't wait to start the next book in the series.

The writing is good but it just drags out a lot and most of the story is just the characters telling stories, there is probably about 200+ pages where Father Callahan tells his story about what happened after 'Salem's Lot. The majority of this book is comprised of back-story and which can be interesting and all but it just goes on and on. What I liked so much about the first three was learning more and more about the world the group is in but in this story I felt there wasn't that much added to that aspect of the story.

There are interesting developments, to be sure, such as the introduction of Susannah's new persona, Mia, and her "Chap", but considering that the past two volumes haven't put our heroes one step closer to The Tower, WOLVES OF THE CALLA is a digression down a long road that, ultimately, doesn't take us where we'd hoped to go. The problem with having it in THIS books is that WOLVES is comprised of almost NOTHING BUT backstory.

Shades of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, The Gunslingers are conscripted to fight The Wolves, and.That's it, actually. Volume V in Stephen King's DARK TOWER epic finds our intrepid band of Gunslingers arriving in Calla Byrn Sturgis, a town about to receive their once-a-generation visitation from "The Wolves", a band of marauding masked horsemen dispatched from nearby Thunderclap to steal their children.

His backstory is compelling, and would have made a great standalone book. To the tune of 700+ pages.

Don't get me wrong, I didn't hate WOLVES OF THE CALLA, but I didn't start enjoying it until about 500 pages in, and most of what I enjoyed had to do with the reappearance of Father Donald Callahan, the Priest who fled "SALEM'S LOT in disgrace way back in the '70's. The flashbacks and digressions are seemingly without end, and when we do finally get to the meat of the story, the actual stand against The Wolves, it's over before you know it, and it seems so rushed that it's almost an afterthought.

With luck, he'll get back on track with the last two volumes.

This is one if not the best series I have read up to now. In a way i'd like it if they made a movie based on the dark tower series (casting clint eastwood as Roland) but they (directors , producers) would probably make a mess of things.Please,please,please people reading this review, honestly you don't know what you're missing.