I feel like the Holly angle is somewhat unnecessary for these books. Like, with Dark Tower, the main characters were completely integral to the larger story. You can’t have any DT book without Roland, he is inherently part of the story, you couldn’t write DT3 and have it all of a sudden be about Frank or Bob instead of Roland. But in all of these, it’s much more like there’s the Monster of the Week™ and then there’s Holly (and the others) chugging along trying to find them. But I feel like they don’t need Holly specifically. He can still tell largely the same story with the same baddie but sub out Holly for $person and it would still work just fine.

I like them well enough for what they are, they’re fine books, I just don’t really get why he keeps coming back to this one character (or set of characters) all of a sudden.