Having read the previous four books in this series, I found this episode to be rather tedious and unexciting.
King seems to revel in repeating and re examining different aspects of the relationship between the actors in the story to the point that I lost a great deal of interest in the story line until much later in the book, you have to read it because you need to follow the plot for the future episodes, however , I personally found it hard work at times.
