Gwendy's Final Task

De: Stephen King, Richard Chizmar

Narrado por: Marin Ireland

King and Chizmar join forces again with a powerful novel which is also the final chapter in the Gwendy trilogy.

When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven coloured buttons promised death and destruction.

Years later, the button box re-entered Gwendy's life. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once more forced to deal with the temptations that the box represented - an amazing sense of wellbeing, balanced by a terrifyingly dark urge towards disaster.

With the passing of time, the box has grown ever stronger and evil forces are striving to possess it. Once again, it is up to Gwendy Peterson, now a United States Senator battling the early symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease, to keep it from them. At all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities?

Gwendy's Final Task is a wildly suspenseful and at the same time deeply moving novel in which 'horror giants' (Publishers Weekly) Stephen King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to the MF-1 space station, where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And, maybe, all worlds.

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Reseñas de la Crítica

Man, I love this story! The whole thing just races and feels so right-sized and so scarily and sadly relevant. Loved the characters . . . and the sense of one little girl's connection to the whole world through this weird device. It all just sang

A resonant novella set in one of King's signature locales: the small town of Castle Rock, Maine

[An] appealing chiller . . . The charming protagonist and thrill of temptation will enthrall fans and new readers alike

This charming, whimsical tale about a woman with an enchanted toy deepens into a story of pain and threat, destiny and desire

Has genuine charm

Tense and yet simultaneously moving

A well-written, seamless read (you can't see the join between the chapters King wrote and Chizmar wrote), that racks up the tension and dread, as well as the horror and the sense of wonder in this modern fairy story. The ending will bring a smile to the face, and possibly a tear to the eye. A fine end to the series and Gwendy's journey

Stephen King and Richard Chizmar's Gwendy saga comes to a satisfying conclusion . . . Unexpectedly moving. Like its predecessors, Gwendy's Final Task is both a seamless act of collaboration and a deeply felt reflection on the perilous state of our fractured modern world

This final book was the best of the three!

This one was more of a thriller than the other two, but was still more of a story about the terrible price being paid for a charmed life. Was it because of the box or was it her own hard work? We won't ever know. The final explanation for men in yellow was a bit odd. I didn't feel that stuff was necessary to be honest. It just felt very forced. But the rest of the story was really good. Not great but really good.

This narrator did a good job too. Seamlessly fitted in with the previous narrator.

Trash

I only read this because it's the last in the series and I make it a point to read anything with RF in it.
my main problems are:
1. the book starts referring to Gwendy as Gwendoline half way through even though it's explained why that isn't her name.
2. RF is somehow a good guy with good intentions? it's like the author never read the first book (only helped finish it), nor any of SK's other work.
it's terrible and the ending is ridiculously stupid.

Utter Garbage

Don't bother. All 3 in this series are nothing like SK's work.
Inconsistencies , rediculous story, I kept waiting for the climax, it never came.