 Why why why hello everybody E here welcome back to another book review today We're doing a book that has been requested Since I've for what since they first announced it um I Told everybody that I would read it. I would probably go with the library first because I had I had an inkling I had expectations and then Then the book came out and I was on a hold of like a hundred hundred people in line ahead of me at the library I wasn't gonna buy the book y'all and I still have it and I'm not going to of course. We were talking about Gwendi's magic feather um I Kept my expectations Super low um I kept my expectations the bottom sub basement. I'm we're talking sub level five uh Chizmar's style is very sparse. Um, he's a He's a writer. I'm trying. I'm trying to be nice here Especially since I have fans of the channel that work for cemetery dance that are friends with Chizmar, but What? I'm gonna it's I'm having problems wrapping my brain around this book because the first the first book has a lot of the stuff Of course, it has King's name on it There was some discussion when the book came out that it didn't feel none of it felt like King But you can see his absence here Whether or not King helped Chizmar with the first book and Chizmar wrote the whole thing Who knows maybe Chizmar just got lucky? I don't know But there was a point there was there was cohesion. It felt like a a full complete story This book feels like a cash grab I wanted to say that long before I ever read the book because King wasn't on it. So obviously but Let's let's not talk about what might have been let's talk about what is why do I call it a cash grab? Is it because King's names on on it? No The reason I call it a cash grab is because the book feels like a cobbled together fan fiction of the Stephen King universe It feels like the Castle Rock TV show and everything that's wrong with the Castle Rock TV show At least the first season. I can't bring myself to watch the second season this book Every single time that there's a conflict in the book. It is wrapped up like that It the I would say I would say the very next page, but the very next page is a new chapter The book is super super short another thing another reason why I'm going to throw cash grab out there Is because the audiobook tells a different story Then the novel the novel the book is being marketed as a novel yet the audiobook Is marketed as a Novella because you can't hide the fact that the books only four hours long But to say that one thing is a certain length a novel experience a Novel and the other one is a novella To change the marketing for the book so that you can have really big font and have really short chapters And somehow have 300 pages Instead of just doing like they did with Gwendi and made it a itty-bitty book Which it should have been this one should have been it's slightly Slightly longer than Gwendi's button box probably by about 10,000 words roughly But every single there's absolutely no conflict in here. It feels like Chismar had this political theme in mind And if you disagree with his politics, I don't care stay out of the comments. I just delete you I don't care about the politics. Okay, but it seemed like he went in with a political theme and then everything just Floated out the window By the end of the book you're you're left with this feeling of what was the purpose What why is this here? Why does this exist and literally the only thing that I can think of is That dollar dollar bills y'all I am I am sorely Disappointed in the author not so much in the book because I expected the book to be bad I expected it to feel like a cash grab That's why I said I probably wasn't going to read it unless the library came in with a copy now Luckily, I have scribe so when I got bored with the very with the very basic writing I hopped over to the the audio book because simply because it is easier to listen to bad writing than it is to read Bad writing. I keep picking out things while I'm reading that make me stop and go. No, you should have written it this way while With the audio book I can get through it much easier I'm not going to take up too much more of your time I wrote a review and on Goodreads that pretty much sums up all of my feelings about this book So if you want to read that it's down there in the doobly-doo if there's another book I'm definitely going to skip it This is also one of those times when I look at the reviews of the book and I can point out It's like that review exists because you're friends with this person And and it is you know or that you have a business Relationship with this person. I did not ring read Stephen King's intro. I'll be completely honest with you I was going to save it till afterwards, but I decided not to read it because I don't want to hear lies I don't want to hear you know him go. I'm perfectly comfortable with you know, Chismar, you know doing this rada rada rada King doesn't care. I had this point in his life It's the same that he came out for the Dark Tower movie, which I did admittedly enjoy, but it's not a good Dark Tower movie It's a good stupid action film and it's also good in a so So bad it's good kind of way kind of like a troll to kind of way You can make fun of it have fun Easter egg hunt that kind of thing same with Castle Rock season one It's that bad, you know, you know like oh god, why they do that other than that one sissy space again, so That should have been a short film all by itself if I'm honest, but uh the uh, I Didn't want to read his his rationalization for letting this happen because you know He said that the Dark Tower movie was great until the embargo was lifted and he came out and he goes mistakes were made You know, he has to help sell things. He has a contractual I'm maybe not contractual, but he has a working relationship with Cemetery Dance, and I'm sure Chismar is his friend I'm sure they are really friends. I Really wanted to believe that Chismar's heart was in the right place And I know I said I wasn't gonna go on too much longer, but I really really wanted to believe that I Wanted so bad to believe that his heart was in the right place, and then I started reading it It's like oh look, there's there's Frank Dodd reference. Oh look. There's a this reference. Oh look. There's a that reference It this book is a Funko Pop That's what this book is so until next time. I have been a you have been you this has been another book review I'll talk to you guys later and no We were not gonna have a full blown in front. This is not a Stephen King book y'all get out of my comments This is not a Stephen King book. Bye