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If you are looking for magnificent worldbuilding, characters who's fate is still unknown, and characters with tough jobs but they still remain likeable, then this book is for you.

Having watched this after seeing the 2004 film adaptation, I must say that the old saying that the book is always better most definitely applies here...it has the typical aura of horror about it that permeates most of Stephen King's works in New England towns.

I have read a lot of Stephen King in my life...and I think that this novel is one of his best...because while it is less specific than others in terms of locations of where things take place, that's part of it's suspense. Not sure about other readers, but I'm pretty sure the world in the painting is one of the worlds on the wheel; sort of reminds me of one of the twisting areas of Roland's world. I feel like Rose Madder and Roland might have interacted off page at some point.

Ann Rule has always had a way of getting into both the criminal subjects' heads as well as those of their victims in every single book of hers I have had the pleasure to read. All the way through this one, she says how it was the hardest one she'd had to write to date...I can see why. Gary Ridgway was a man of unspeakable evil, as well as one of the most depraved human beings I have ever read about, and I've read and watched content about many serial killers. Any killer is dangerous, but some are just more so.

It's definitely going to be a different world on roshar after this. But Dalinar was left with so few options; not sure what I'd have done in his situation.

One of the best cozy series you will read. Love how Vianne is subtle in what she can do, though she makes a difference in her community that's felt by citizens everywhere.

One of the best series I have read so far; though for the time being, I'm going to wait until the rest of this series is out...I want to see what happens to Linea and Fenris? Anyone else thinking that she might be able to stop this universe's Ragnarök?

And the plot thickens...when you finish this one, you'll be moving right over to the next in series; I love how each book builds on the previous, and I have not read a fantasy series which pulls off that trope that well in a very long time. Sending 2024 out with a fantasy bang.

I'm awaiting the next part of this series; love these characters! You will end up feeling the same...if you can put this one down, that is.