Three. This is the number of your fate.

Calamity Bev here.

I was a teeny bit hesitant to saddle up and ride with the posse
(Jumpin’ Jeff,
Rootin’ Tootin’ Pistol Packin’ Delee,
Quick Draw Stepheny, and
Straight Shootin’ Susan) when they continued their journey towards the Dark Tower, because I had struggled to get through The Gunslinger. The Drawing of the Three, however, has redeemed the series, and I will gladly join them every time they decide to follow the Path of the Beam.

DotT begins just hours after The Gunslinger ends, and Roland has woken to find himself in one hell of a predicament.

Dud-a-chum? Dod-a-chock?

The lobstrosities don't kill Roland, but they certainly maim him. It's hard to be a Gunslinger (at least a Gunslinger that shoots accurately) missing two fingers from your right hand, not to mention part of your calf, and a big toe. The cards are stacked against him. His revolvers have also gotten wet, most likely ruining his ammunition; his wounds are beginning to get infected; AND (no pressure) he has to draw three people into his world to continue his quest to the Tower. He realizes he's in a ****** situation.

Very well. I am now a man with no food, two less fingers and one less toe than I was born with; I am a gunslinger with shells that may not fire; I am sickening from a monster's bite and have no medicine; I have a day's water if I'm lucky; I may be able to walk perhaps a dozen miles if I press myself to the last extremity. I am, in short, a man on the edge of everything.

He begins walking north, and finds the first door he must enter, marked The Prisoner. The prisoner is Eddie Dean, a heroin addict that is in a predicament of his own.

The second door, marked The Lady of Shadows, houses the world of Odetta Holmes, a paraplegic with dark secrets.

Behind the third and final door, marked The Pusher, lies Jack Mort, a murderer who is linked to the others in ways you can't begin to imagine.

By the end of this book, my eyes were bulging out of my head. Thank you to Stepheny for pushing me to continue on my journey. I can't wait to read The Wastelands with the posse later in the month!

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