Unsurprisingly, The Drawing of the Three picks up right where The Gunslinger left off. Roland finished his lengthy palaver with the man in black and stumbled to the shore of the Western Sea.

The purpose of this volume is to populate Roland’s ka-tet, the people who will join him on his quest for the tower. Readers meet the prisoner and the lady of the shadows, unlikely companions who somehow form a team against all odds.

This book almost reads like a series of three short-stories. With every door on the beach, Roland enters a new world, a new person, complete with a back story richly realized from the mind of Stephen King.

This book will leave you anxious to continue the journey to the tower in The Wastelands.

King, Stephen. The Drawing of the Three. Narrated by Frank Muller. Audiobook ed., unabridged, Penguin Audiobooks, 2016. The Dark Tower 2.