I was really surprised at how (view spoiler)[suddenly this book ended! (hide spoiler)] It felt like running along and all of a sudden coming up to the edge of a cliff! I get that this is part of a series and so you have to continue on to the next book in order to find out what happens next, but because of such an (view spoiler)[ABRUPT ENDING! (hide spoiler)] that kind of makes it almost impossible for me to judge this book as a stand alone story, in the same way that I felt the previous book The Drawing of the Three felt more complete. I LOVED the Drawing of the Three so much. Just coming off reading that one I found at times this one for me personally didn't live up to the joy I felt reading Drawing of the Three. HOWEVER, the reason I am still giving this 4 stars is because when I really thought upon the moments that I did like in this book, to be fair I really gave it an honest look back and I realized there were enough moments to make it a 4 star experience, despite not having enough moments as the last book. 
 Moments I did love in this book: 
 1) Early on in the first chapters, seeing the new maturity of Eddie and Susannah. They are really coming into their own as strong, comfortable and confident gunslingers and this is really awesome! 
 2) The first encounter with the (view spoiler)[gigantic cyborg bear [!] (hide spoiler)] was pretty cool and "new" and made me think "okay, wow, now this story is taking an interesting turn to a different place!" the implications of that (view spoiler)[cyborg bear (hide spoiler)] opened up new possibilities in the story that were intriguing! 
 3) When Jake was reading the story of "Charlie the Choo Choo and Engineer Bob." We get to follow along with him as he reads the entire story. What starts off as as simple child's story book about a train, at the end of the story Jake, and the reader realizes (view spoiler)[ the sinister and dark undertone that is REALLY present in that story, and pointing ahead towards Blaine the Mono! Good stuff! (hide spoiler)] Something about the way that chapter was written, I found myself still thinking about that Charlie the Choo Choo story later! It really stuck with me. 
 4) The moment when (view spoiler)[Jake is finally reunited with Roland and joins along with Eddie and Susannah (hide spoiler)] that was a satisfying moment, "okay the gang's all here, let's get this show on the road!" 
 5) When Gasher (view spoiler)[takes Jake down and they descend into the labyrinth (hide spoiler)] the place where they go to me was very visually stunning as King did a great job of describing this underground type world. I really liked the setting of this place, it reminded me of the caves/tunnels underground hidden area where the "family" stayed in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2! 
 I know this book leaves off where you just HAVE TO immediately go on and grab the next book. And while I really thought about doing that, on second thought I plan to take a short break before going on to Wizard and Glass, taking a side exit off the Dark Tower freeway to read a different Stephen King book, but I will come back to the Wizard and Glass right after that!