Wizard and Glass by Stephen King (1998, Paperback)

When I first picked up this book I was not happy about the detour from Roland’s travels to listen to a love story from his past for almost the entire book. The story gave not only depth to the character of Roland but brought some pieces of the story along that would have been hard to add in later in the story. While it is a love story it is a hard one that ends how you expect a love story to end for a gunslinger and shows us how some of the sprit of the gunslinger is crafted