Final thoughts: This is probably one of King’s best pieces of work to-date. As much as he’s the King of horror, he really knows how to write a fast-paced fantasy with a world that is so interesting and intricate. He’s got characters who we care about with a villain that is too good to not want to know more about. The way King kept the reader on the edge of their seat the whole novel was a testament to how good of a writer he is, especially when it comes to the small details because that’s how this novel won us over in the end. It was in the minute things that came back around and were the hero. This ended in such a way that it wasn’t predictable how it would all go down. The reader had a sense on who was behind everything, but it was all in the how it went down. King actually thought this out and gave the reader an ending he can be proud of because it was shocking and it was heartfelt; truly a masterpiece from start to finish.