Even though this is my first book I have ever read by Mr. King I feel his reputation proceeds him with his troupes because this one had them all.

Kingisms aside I will say over all this story was pretty solid. They trhow a lot of names at yeah but there is really only a few characters that mater with some interesting side characters that show up from time to time.

I will say what kept me going was trying to milk any info I could from the pages to learn what I could about this world. They don't give you a lot but when they do it really makes you that nk and try to puzzle out the current world and how it got to this situation. The story does not give you any full concereat answers so you will have to fill in the gaps your self.

King did a great job at really making you feel the pain the boys went through while on this walk. Part of the reason I went through this book so fast was because I wanted the walk to be over for my self mentally.