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Average rating3.8
The final book in the New York Times bestselling Gwendy’s Button Box trilogy from Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its eight colored buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box reentered Gwendy’s life. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation the box represented. Now, malignant forces seek to possess the button box, and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them at all costs. But where can one hide something from such powerful entities? In Gwendy’s Final Task, master storytellers Stephen King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to the MF-1 space station, where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And, maybe, all worlds.
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3 primary booksThe Button Box is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2017 with contributions by Stephen King, Richard Chizmar, and Richard Chizmar.
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Just as much of a page-turner as the first two books in the trilogy. This series was funny and creepy, and I enjoyed every line.
Jason X, Leprechaun 4 and Hellraiser Bloodline all went to space, were ridiculed for it and yet were all better told and more thoughtful stories than Gwendy's Final Task. The first Gwendy adventure was a fun little short that did a lot with its limited length. Her second outing was pretty bland so I was looking forward to King getting back on board for the third one but I think its actually worse than The Magic Feather. It is packed to the brim with King fan service but its none the better for it. The majority is just daft, in a bad way.
Its not the worst thing Kings ever put out, in a world where End Of Watch exists its going to be real hard to limbo under that bar, but it is incredibly mediocre. It also feels like its not from the same universe as the other books and I think that's because of the shoehorning of real political figures into her already fictitious political landscape. We all know Trumps a dobber, theres no need for immortalising him further.