I’m not gonna mark this review as spoilery because there are two things I know: 1. You have already read The Drak Tower series or 2. You are never going to read it. Yep, those are the two camps my friends fall into these days. If, by some strange, unexplained cosmic mystery, you haven’t yet read these books but plan to one day, you should probably stop reading here. Just a warning in case you exist.

Anyway, spoilers...




Coming right up.....



I love that Stephen King made himself into a character in his own novel. I loved it. Toward the end of e book when he shows up for real with his real-life family was just so much fun to read. Then, after I thought the story was over, but he tacks on journals about writing the series and then a surprise new ending happens... man, just so good. I don’t care how ridiculous or egotistical it is. It was my favorite part of this otherwise mediocre book.

Honestly, just watching this whole thing unravel and go off the rails has been a blast. These are great books by any means, but they sure are entertaining. Wolves of the Calla opened up a Pandora’s box of Harry Potter, Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Salem’s Lot. This book doubles down hard on all of that and just gets weirder and weirder as it rolls along.

I set the bar low for this one since everything I’ve read says this is the worst of the series. I was pleasantly surprised though, and just went along with this ridiculous adventure. I hope the final book just goes nuts and over the top. I can’t wait for it. This is so dumb, man, seriously, but also a blast to read. I’ll even go so far and say books 4-6 have been better than the first three. Yeah, I said it.

Almost to her Tower, baby!! YOLO!! I’m all in! Let’s go take down the Crimson King and the low men and whoever else shows up. Nothing will surprise me at this point.

Great series. This book is not my favourite in the series, but I’m so amazed how in each story S. King has the ability always to surprise us!

Малко ми досади на моменти тази част от поредицата.

Вероятно нямаше нужда чак толкова подробно да се занимаваме с драмата и делата на Сузана, но това естествено си е избор на писателя.

Алтернативният дневник на Кинг в края на книгата ми беше доста интересен - харесаха ми чувството му за хумор и самоиронията му!

Моята оценка - 3,5*.

Oh Susannah. Will she ever walk alone? Perhaps. But not at this time. Not in New York, the place she had once called home. Now it's the place she is taken captive. It's not Detta this time. They had their peace, and Detta settled. Now it's Mia's turn, and she is stronger than ol' nasty Detta ever was. To New York then on the run. A world away, yet still along the path of the beam. Mia will birth her chap there. She'll need Susannah, for a spell. After all, she does reside in the same body.

Damn, this was better than I had remembered! During my first journey to the Tower, I would have placed this book last. For the life of me, I could say why I thought that then. Now, its right there with the others. I had remembered it being the book about Susannah. That's only partly true. Although she becomes the main character, Roland and Eddie occupy almost as much page space, and the character development is far more dense than I had recalled. It's not the same for Jake and Callahan. Their part to play is last here, setting the stage for a doozy of a start in the final book to come. Song of Susannah still reads like it is a part of that final book, The Dark Tower, but it doesn't bother me in the least. Nor does the fact that King plays a cameo, breaking that reader’s wall. I'm sure I hadn't expected that the first time. This time, I like it.

PS. Most fun moments for me here? Without a doubt, it’s Detta. Now that Mia has taken over the role of the bad guy, Detta provides the unexpectedly hilarious comic relief. She is still one crass lady, but it sure is more fun when she's pointing that mouth in another direction.

Para muchos el peor de la saga. A mí me gustó mucho y no me parece el peor. Es, para mí, uno de los tomos más importantes de la serie. En este se revelan muchas cosas que esclarecen un poco el misterio que gira en torno a la Torre Oscura y todo se va preparando para su final.

Yep. I am still ticked at this book. I don't even know what to say. I still say "Song of Susannah" was the foreshadowing of what ended up being the final book "The Dark Tower". There have probably been better reviews than mine out there on this one. And all I can say is that when Stephen King inserted himself into these books I should have quit while I was ahead. I do think that the graphic novels are awesome and made me fall all in love with these books again. "The Wind Through the Keyhole" was fantastic and helped bring the books back to where they were at the beginning.

Pros: Well we are back with our ka-tet. Mostly.

Cons: Just about everything else. This book was always King's take on the Arthurian legend mixed with some Lord of the Rings sci-fi- mash-up. But this one delving back into Susannah and her breaking into another character was just too much for me. Don't get me started on Mia's chap. The book moves so damn slow it will make you want to scream after a while.

La canción de Susannah es el sexto libro de la Saga de la Torre Oscura de Stephen King. A estas alturas de la película apenas puedo contar sin hacer spoilers pero conocemos más profundamente la naturaleza de Sussanah y su papel crucial junto a Roland y Eddie con el Ka-tet. Como dato curioso es que varios personajes conocen al mismísimo Stephen King y se desentrañan algunos datos sobre el padre Callahan del Misterio de Salem’s Lot.

Lo mejor es el cliffhanger final que me dejó con unas ganas tremendas de saber como termina esta saga. Bravo King!

4.5 stars. A lot of people dislike vol. 6 of The Dark Tower novels but I really liked this! No matter how meta it got, I still couldn't put it down. Really fantastic. I can't honestly review it because anything I say could be construed as a spoiler, but if you're reading the novels - this is a good one. Has more of a The Drawing of the Three and The Waste Lands feel to it (coincidentally, my favourites in the series so far).

3.5

Approximately 800 years ago I began a quest; a quest to take some much-loved friends of mine on a journey like no other. I enjoy doing things like this. I enjoy people reading books that I love so much I am willing to bludgeon them with said books until they agree to read them.



Luckily, with the Gunslinger I did not need to do too much convincing. That crazy MahFah Jeff joined on willingly enough with Delee and I.

(Little did he know, he’d be spending the rest of his pitiful life in my basement! *cackles*)

Since our journey began we have gathered and lost many. We have had some real fun times adding adverbs and adjectives to Delee’s nickname. We’ve enjoyed the company of one another and managed to not kill Dan 2.0.

Yet.



Song of Susannah is my least favorite in the series. No matter how many times I read the series through, Susannah just never grows on me. Now, could this be because she is paired with my literary soul-mate, Edward Cantor Dean? No, no. That has nothing to do with it…. I swear.



*dares anyone to question her with her death-stare*

*watches Jeff flinch and cackles*

The reason I don’t like Susannah is that she continuously fucks everything up. She’s difficult. And annoying. And unnecessary. She’s just a character I don’t care for. I don't know how else to put it. Her story does not interest me. I felt like King made her a little flat. Jake, Eddie and Roland all have this wonderfully interesting backstory that draw me in. Parts of Susannah’s story are interesting, but every time I start to think I’m invested in her, I find she does something to make me want to punch that crazy bitch in her throat.



I try to like her, I really do. But I don’t.

Her story in this gets completely out of control and takes a turn I’ve never liked. It is probably the one aspect of the Dark Tower that I really can't get behind. (Trust me, guys, it gets worse in the last book).

After the events in Wolves of the Calla, Susannah has disappeared. She’s slipped off to the Dixie Pig to deliver her chap. That’s all you need to know. Right there. I summed up her entire story in two sentences. The rest of the book is gold. It’s Eddie and Roland off on one adventure while Pere Callahan and Jake go on another. All the while Susannah makes things worse and worse by the minute. Because she is the worst.



I am excited to see the gang’s reaction to the finale-except Dan…I think Dan will hate it. (Just a feeling I have, I could be way wrong!) I am also very sad that a 3-year journey is coming to an end. When Jeff, Delee and I started this in 2014 none of us knew that it would become what it has today. I mean, shit! There are people who joined us that literally fell off the face of the Goodreads Planet never to be heard from again! And yet here we are… Me and my favorite GR people preparing to take on the final installment.



Guys, I’ll try my best to keep the tears to a minimum. No promises. But just remember:

Viajes inter-dimensionales al mejor estilo de Stephen King sin spoilers

Abrí este libro con las expectativas mas bajas que haya tenido con libro de Stephen King alguno, debido a las malas criticas que ha tenido no solo de la gente experimentada sino también del publico común como yo, la mayoría coincidían en que este es el punto mas bajo de toda la saga y pues dejen que les diga que me ha gustado mucho, si es ese el caso el punto mas bajo de toda la saga debería de ser lobos del calla.

En este libro Stephen King le vuelve a dar un propósito claro camino a la torre oscura, entre sus idas y venidas es muy parecida a La llegada de los tres el cual es el favorito de muchos fans de esta saga, la narración vuelve a ser ágil y trepidante, los personajes son amenazados e inclusive fragmentados y se encuentran a la deriva no sólo en distancia síno también en el tiempo, en el espacio y en los multiversos que aquí se da cabida.

La inclusión de la meta ficción en este tomo es bastante divertida, aunque para algunos se haya obstinadamente empeñada en mostrarnos que esto no es mas que una mera ficción yo la entendí como una forma de dar mas realidad a la historia, nos muestra la ilusión de todo escritor de fantasía, el de ser creadores de un mundo que en algún punto del multiverso está ocurriendo de verdad, el hecho de jugar a ser dioses.

Es un gran libro. en serio créanme y deja un excelente sabor de boca para el libro final, donde todo termina. El séptimo y ultima, siento como la mejor saga de fantasía y ciencia ficción que he leído se va desvaneciendo, no se si entristecer o emocionarme ante este hecho. Solo queda seguir adelante.

Ea, digo gracias. Todas las cosas sirven al haz.


4/5

A chamber western, not a lot of action but oodles of internal dialogue and back room machinations.

Many reviewers have called this one the weakest of the books and I’ll go along with that, King was eating up the long back miles towards the end.

For me the most appealing aspect of Song of Susannah was the inclusion of Stephen King himself! The idea of a multiverse that includes literature has been done before (see Heinlein’s spectacular mess The Number of the Beast) but to add in a certain New England writer was especially fun - and MOST especially the coda. Some special something brewing there for the last book.

And on to the last book where King will put a bow on this remarkable work of fantasy.

This penultimate volume of the series made me wonder if maybe King wasn't quite sure yet where he was going with it. There's a whole lot of discussion and character development and background material and some really off the beam stuff (the author and characters from other books dropping in to chat with his characters in this book is unusual, right?), but when you get to the end there have been some changes but not much progress towards the ultimate destination. It was a wonderful appetizer and build-up, but not enough pay-off. It'd been almost thirty years since we'd started watching the gunslinger follow the man in black across the desert, and despite how wonderful the journey had been the ending didn't seem much closer. A terrific book, but I wish I'd waited to read it until I the final volume in hand.