Thanks, everyone, for your respectful replies to my mini-tirade. I wrote it mere minutes after having finished
By the Sword and I was a tad worked up.
I agree that FPW has done an amazing job of keeping the series fresh and interesting. I continue to buy each book in hardback as soon as it is released. I love Jack and thrill to his varied adventures.
I just... I just came away from this last book scratching my head. It seems that rather than trying to tie up all these other threads as he heads into the home stretch to
Nightworld, FPW is intentionally unraveling and knotting them up as messily as possible. Yes, it's fun to read, but I don't want to see the climax ruined as a result.
Does that make any sense?
Also, I have another fear that I didn't express in my original post. It concerns the character of "P. Frank Winslow." Remember how we all fell in love with King's
Dark Tower series? How we grew to adore it as a breathtaking work of scope and imagination? And then remember our dissapointment when it turned into the single most massive exercise in literary masturbation ever?
I'm praying that I'm not seeing it happen again in front of my eyes.