Compared the previous two novels AATE is as action packed as a Micheal Bay film, finally Covenant has returned, and things are actually happening. By this point the minor characters have drifted from obscurity to being on par with weapons, armor and trees.If like me you're struggling through this...
An absolutely beautiful book -- a beautiful and mostly satisfying ending to this beloved series that I started reading as a teenager (I'm now closing in on 50). My only complaint is that, possibly, the end seemed somewhat abrupt. I thought there'd be a bit more of a fight between Foul and Covenan...
*Soul-saddened SIGH*.....Damn, damn, DAMN...life can really be full of suck. This book really torched my hopes and dreams. NOT because it was nightmarishly horrible (which it wasn’t) but because I wanted it to be so brimming with steaming chunks of mouth-watering awesome that I could write a s...
A master storyteller, Stephen R. Donaldson established a worldwide reputation with his unforgettable, critically acclaimed fantasy series *The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant*. Then, with *The Real Story * and *Forbidden Knowledge*, he launched a thrilling new science fiction series. Now the gala...
Värdigt avslut på en fantastisk serie. En serie som är lång, tungläst men fruktansvärt bra och i denna bok är tempot galet. Eller kanske inte så mycket tempot som intensiteten. Konfrontationen/mötet mellan folket på Trumpet och folket på Punisher är fantastiskt, likaså deras kommunikation med War...
Terisa has been taken prisoner, Geraden's brother has been taken prisoner (read the book; I promise it will make sense--there are just too many plot threads to do justice to them here). BUT. . . Terisa has discovered she has talent with mirrors too. And she's left behind the strange attraction ...
To be honest - I picked up this book fully expecting not to like it at all. 'The Wounded Land' wasn't all bad - I loved Donaldson's gift for description, I loved how he couldn't let any of his characters 'sink' into perfection, and the Land was generally an interesting place. Ironically though, t...
I will tell you what I don't like about this book right up front, to warn those who might wish to be warned: there's a LOT of raping and psychological abusing of the main female character. In fact, it's an essential element of the story most of the way through the book. I don't criticize the ac...
Author of *The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant*, one of the most acclaimed fantasy series of all time, master storyteller Stephen R. Donaldson retums with the second book in his long-awaited new science fiction series--a story about dark passions, perilous alliances, and dubious heroism set in a st...
I read "The Gap" series, a five-novel saga from Stephen R. Donaldson.I think Donaldson does better with SF than fantasy. The series is set in a future as created by something called the Gap Drive, an FTL travel method that sometimes drives people mad. It starts out with a complicated little minue...
"Thomas Covenant found himself once again summoned to the Land. The Council of Lords needed him to move against Foul the Despiser who held the Illearth Stone, ancient source of evil power. But although Thomas Covenant held the legendary ring, he didn't know how to use its strength, and risked los...
The triumphant return of the New York Times-bestselling, critically acclaimed fantasy series that has become a modern classic. Since their publication more than two decades ago, the initial six books in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series have sold more than 6 million copies and have been...
I have long known Stephen Donaldson as the author of the Thomas Covenant sextuplet of books. That series could very firmly be placed in the genre of 'fantasy'. I'm on the last of his pentuplet of books The Gap Series, a series that has certainly opened up new dimensions to Stephen Donaldson as an...
A previously unpublished episode from The Illearth War.Having found the Illearth Stone, Lord Foul intends to wield its evil power over the Giants of Seareach.But a force, led by Korik Bloodguard together with the Lords Shetra and Hyrim, undertake a perilous mission - to try and warn the Giants of...
My reviewing vocabulary is not the strongest. Is it considered "overwritten" when an author takes way too long building up every plot point while simultaneously having too many plot points to begin with? Or is "overwritten" just when a writer uses language that is conspicuously ornate, such as ...
The disappointment I feel over The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant so far is like an innominate puissance that has left my love for Stephen R. Donaldson quite frangible. (If you have read the book, you’ll understand the obscure word choices.) tLike many others, I am a huge fan of the first two...
The Creator Of Thomas Covenant Adds Eight New Wonders To The World. In his first collection of short fiction, the bestselling author of White Gold Wielder presents eight superb stories, including "Gilden-Fire," the famous "outtake" from Illearth War, and two brand new novellas written especially...
Reviewed for THC ReviewsI first read The Mirror of Her Dreams probably close to twenty-five years ago, so when I picked it up for a re-read, I barely recalled anything about the story. As I read, some small things started to come back to me, but by and large, it was like reading it for the first ...
The second trilogy really pales in comparison to the first. It opens with promise as we see the Land, which Donaldson imbued with so much beauty and spirit in his first trilogy, warped and ruined. The first book was about action, reaction, and learning. Plots and subplots were put into motion and...
The heat was like walking into a wall; for a moment, I couldn’t find my balance. Then I bumped into somebody. That kept me from failing. But he was a tail man in an expensive suit, certain and pitiless, and as he recoiled his expression said plainly that people like me shouldn’t be allowed out on...
The stone of the Sandhold surrounded her, limiting her percipience. The very walls seemed to glare back at her as if they strove to protect a secret cunning. And at the edges of her range moved the hustin like motes of ill. The miscreated Guards were everywhere, jailers for the Chatelaine as well...
The downpour, windless, strikes him from the long slash of open sky that the road cuts through the trees. It makes a sound like a waterfall among the leaves and branches, a damp roar that deafens him to the slap of his mount’s hooves. Ahead it blinds him to the road’s future. But he is not concer...
He is effectively a hostage. Of course. What else? Like the proton cannon trained on Suka Bator, this threat was really aimed at Punisher. At Trumpet's people aboard the cruiser. Now Morn faced an abyss of her own: a completely different gulf than the one in front of Min; or the same chasm from t...
He had shit and sweat ground into his blisters. Every inhalation stank; his whole mouth tasted like ash and excrement. As he took Trumpet in to Billingate, Angus Thermopyle fought the fragmentation imposed on him by his welding; did what he could to stay sane. Hashi Lebwohl had made him schizophr...
After a moment the door control status indicators in Morn’s cabin winked green. Nick had unlocked her. She hurried out into the passageway before he could change his mind. She should have gone to sickbay. The pain in her head abated too slowly: each...
It stumbled under her whenever a hoof skidded on the glazed ice. She could feel its heart strain against its gaunt ribs. But as soon asshe was thirty or forty paces beyond her companions, Linden began to draw Earthpower from the Staff, using its vitality to nurture her horse as well as to warm he...
The Despiser’s Guidance South: Linden prayed that she and Anele ran south; deeper into the valley.Surely that black storm arose from the north?—from the peril which had found its release in Mount Thunder? If so, she needed to flee southward, toward the place where the mountains rose like barricad...
He kept himself warm against the bitter wind by calling up a flow of power through his staff from time to time and watched in silent dread as the pronged veins of malice in the ground pulsed at Revelstone like sick, green-red lava oozing its way into the Keep’s courage. The ill might which spread...
She was not afraid of his leprosy. She had supported him at every crisis. This was the result. No one could rouse her. She lay in a stupor like catatonia, and dreamed anguish. He went toward the upland plateau because he needed to recover some kind of hope. Already the frenzy of his power had beg...
Perhaps he could have sold Morn’s favors for the money he needed to get Bright Beauty made whole. Power over her would have brought a much higher price there than on Com-Mine Station. And—assuming Nick Succorso followed him—he could have faced his enemy in a more naked and therefore fairer arena....
He perceived this with an acuteness which made his heart ache. In the “real” world, he had not been simply blind, he had been eyeless from birth. He lacked even the organs of sight which could have given him a conception of what vision was. Until the mysterious event which had snatched him from b...