The Drawing of the Three

Definitely a 4.5 stars for me. I feel like the gunslinger (book 1) is really just a 250 page prologue to this book, which I feel overall is book 1, this books is definitely THE book to drive forward the plot and establish our main characters. Which I really enjoyed having this fresh new idea of how to tell a fish out of water story. Kings way of telling his own version of a fish out of water story was so fun, seeing Roland travel to our earth inside of Eddie's body and having to learn and help Eddie and the other two “drawings” with their earthly problems was extremely fun. The book definitely slowed down for me once we got to odetta/detta but only when Roland traveled to her time period of New York to “draw” her, after the “drawing” this character really shined having that element of (when is this character going to eventually shift to her “evil” alter ego to cause more chaos for Eddie and Roland was for sure one of the best parts of this book). And of course the “third drawing” was great.
Overall this book definitely felt like the true first book in to (what I can already guarantee) one of my favorite series I've read so far.

TLDR

Definitely the first true book to this series with a lot of fun and adventurous ideas. King was definitely more comfortable in his writing style in this one I think