I read a few reviews here where readers were thrown off that NOS4A2 wasn't more like his dad's work. On the contrary, I felt like this particular novel was too much like his dad's work. I even felt like maybe SK ghostwrote some of this or least outlined the story for his son. I'm glad there were allusions to King's work like the True Knot from [b:Doctor Sleep 16130549 Doctor Sleep Stephen King https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1510335480l/16130549.SY75.jpg 17851499], Pennywise from [b:It 830502 It Stephen King https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1334416842l/830502.SY75.jpg 150259], Shawshank...you know what, the whole book is just a reference to his dad's work. You even have Leland Gaunt driving his spooky car through Dark Tower portals. He says he put these in there as a joke, but ha ha after the 30th one? Anyway, I thought he did a pretty good job of pulling the reader into the universe but lacked good character development and the ending was done in true Stephen King form:650+ pages about how bad this dude is and 2 sentences for his downfall