Wanna talk about cliffhangers? I got into the dark tower book series in 1995, and devoured the 3 tomes which were published at the time. Without spoiling, let's just say that #3 ends with all of the main characters in immediate mortal danger. Then there was an author's note where King basically wrote "don't hold your breath I have no idea where this story is going and will probably never finish it in my lifetime lmao".

So there's that... Then one fateful morning in 98 I got a call from my best friend whose parents had a book store : "hey zos we've just put on the shelf a new Stephen King book, isn't that from the series you keep yapping about?".

That was probably the peak moment in my bookworm life...