As this is the final book I will do a review of the full series and favor the ending. Spoilers coming, but I will try to contain myself so it’s readable if you haven’t read the series yet. This series as a whole was incredible. It held some of my favorite moments in literature and characters. It also has my favorite fiction book of all time The Drawing of the Three. With that said there are points in some of the books that I thought were pretty eh or just honestly sort of boring. And there are a lot of pages to be bored for so limiting that is crucial. As a whole The Dark Tower series is a monumental effort that is honestly incomprehensible if it didn’t exist. It is so unique and the fact that the movie is so bad was really sad. There are so many different spin-offs or storylines that could be interesting if brought to the screen, but this series serves as an underlying universe that King pulls from and uses in most all of his other works. I thought the end and demise of the ka-tet was sad, but absolutely necessary. And the way King brings us into the mind of Roland and his difficult obsession with his redemption he hopes to find at The Dark Tower. He sacrifices all of his friends who are like family to reach The Dark Tower, and as he ascends the steps we believe in an alternate reality everything is alright. But at its apex The Dark Tower transports our gunslinger to the beginning of his story proving the insanity Roland has been going through for the entire series. As any classic myth, Roland finds himself becoming one and the cyclical nature of his own imprisonment to The Dark Tower and The Man in Black is soul crushing, but exactly the resolution we needed. Best series of all time? Best series of all time (until the Game of Thrones books get finished).