No matter how careful you were, no matter how good your intentions, the button box always extracted its due. In blood.…“People don’t need a button box to do horrible things. There is plenty of evil f*ckery in the human spirit.”Thanks to NetGalley and Gallery Books for sending me an ARC of Gwendy’s Final Task in exchange for an honest review. Gwendy’s Button Box was a very entertaining novella. Young Gwendy was a really believable, interesting character, and the story was an exploration of the we...

Completing their collaborative trilogy, Stephen King and Richard Chizmar bring Gwendy and her mysterious button box back for another adventure, complete with a new challenge that could prove more daunting than meets the eye. After years living with her button box as a memory, Gwendy Peterson is visited once again by the elusive Richard Farris. After much secrecy, Farris mentions that he has one final task for Gwendy that involves the button box, which must be completed post haste. Peterson has m...

Gwendy survived the Button Box, and then the Magic Feather, and now in her 60s she is faced with her final task... getting rid of the Button Box, in space! Nope, that wasn't a typo! What were they thinking? And to add insult to injury this is a The Dark Tower, Derry and Castle Rock crossover!Stephen King lost me on this one, lots of leaps and bounds are needed for me to accept this series ends on a spacecraft! The Caste Rock small-town genius of the first book in the series is completely cast aw...

The only reason why I am giving this a grudging two stars is because of the Easter eggs to other King works. If not for that, this would barely get a 1. What kills me with this story honestly is that if you have not read the Dark Tower, Castle Rock books, and IT you are going to be totally lost. I ended up just wishing that King had done a last book on the Dark Tower series, or maybe done a third book in the Talisman series, anything but do this final book starring Mary Sue, otherwise known as G...

Possibly the worst thing I've ever read with Stephen King's name attached to it. I cannot conceive of how he could be proud or happy to see his name on the cover of this steaming pile of shit.The writing is odious and obnoxious and so lovingly awful that I have to assume Chizmar wrote the bulk of this, and King dipped in and filled in some of the Low Men and Dark Tower references. It's amusing that, toward the end, Gwendy thinks, I've wandered into a comic book when most of the damn thing is wri...

I hadn't realized when I first put in a hold request with my local library that this was the third book in a trilogy. When I recieved notification that the book was available I saw this and neither of the first two books was available. It was too late to cancel so I decided to go ahead and check out the book. Overall I am glad I did but I think I my reading experience would have benefited if I had read the earlier books. Overall though this was an entertaining story.Gwendy Peterson was twelve ye...

I'm gonna make this a sort of catch-all review for the Gwendy Button Box Trilogy, and I'll start by saying that this is an excellent little series of books that happily skirt the border of horror and fantasy; they're dark, but they're sweet, much like the chocolates the button box provides Gwendy, and others, when called upon.The final book was a nice--and somewhat surprising--wrap-up to a 3-novel story that takes place over the entirety of a woman's life and deals with issues well beyond what m...

The KING of the authors& brilliant Richard Chizmar saved the best for the last! And guess what they smartly weaved Roland Deschain’s universe into this story! Good news for Dark Tower fans! Both stories blended perfectly for us! I gave extra nerdy shrieks during my read each time I read those references! My geeky cells truly had a big celebration!We have our last waltz with Gwendy Peterson who was only 12 years old little girl who has possessed the Button Box. After 5 decades later she lost her

I was not sure if I would finish the Gwendy trilogy. I really liked the first book but did not care much for the second one. If it was not for the fact that this book was available on Overdrive when I was looking for something to listen to, I am not sure I would have given it a shot.I must admit I am glad I did. It was much better than the second book and a fitting end to the story.A mix of mystery, sci-fi, and horror; it has all the elements you love from Stephen King. His collaboration with Ch...

A nice finish to Gwendy's story, perhaps a little (or maybe a lot 😬) unlikely at times, but I loved the Dark Tower references and spending some time back in the toxic atmosphere of Derry. No spoilers, but I'm not sure about the plot concerning Gwendy's husband, I liked it, but why did it happen? Was it just to get us to Derry? Or (which is entirely likely) did I miss something? As ever though, with Mr King, and Mr Chizmar too it seems, I was completely absorbed and entertained.

Gwendy’s Final Task is the final novel in a trilogy that has a girl, later a woman, and Final an aging Senator Gwendy Peterson carrying around a Pandora’s Box, which emits irresistible treats and could end the universe as we know it. This novel opens with a 64 year old Gwendy’s battling with early onset Alzheimer’s at the same time she’s shipping out on a rocket ship to a space station. The idea of someone suffering from dementia hiding it from fellow crew members and dealing with the myriad pro...

overall, I liked the book. It's probably ranked in the middle for the 3 Gwendy books.

As the title indicates, this third book in the trilogy wraps up all of the loose ends and brings Gwendy's story to a fine and satisfying conclusion. There are plenty of little Easter eggy allusions to other King works in the Dark Tower and Maine mythos, enough to cheer most Constant Readers. (I added up the digits to the safe-box combination and, yes, they totaled nineteen.) I found it to be one of King's scariest works, because it deals with the most horrifying affliction I can imagine, early o...

What a fantastic way to wrap up this series! I’m going to be honest in saying that I was curious about how Final Task would measure up to Button Box, and I’m pleased to say that King and Chizmar saved the best for last. It's beyond comforting how The Dark Tower was tied up nicely within these pages, too. Final Task will be another instant recommendation to our customers at work. Thanks so much to Edelweiss, the publisher, and authors for this eARC in exchange for an honest review!

They ruined this story with a bunch of fake political bull crap. Awful book and the last Stephen King for quite some time.

Gwendy at the age of 64 becomes an astronaut. She has a mission to rid the Earth of the button box with its tasty chocolate animals and black button to destroy the world. Derry makes an evil appearance and a billionaire called Winston also on the space mission has his own agenda. The story follows Gwendy’s mission to send the button box into space. There is a twist though in that she has early Alzheimer’s and it’s becoming worse. This is better than the second in the series. I enjoyed the story

I really liked this one. It was a good ending for the trilogy. It also had some really good connections to the Dark Tower series. The only thing bad I can say is that once again Stephen King had to throw in bunch of political comments and Trump references. I read his books for his stories. Hard to believe he is still this worked up over Trump.