The Chaos Crystal
(category: fantasy)book 4 of The Tide Lords by
Jennifer Fallon
published by HarperVoyager in 2008, read in October 2009Agamedes' rating: 6 out of 10
Agamedes' opinion:
Even though the immortal magic users are the "villains", they are the main characters of this story. This may be because -- by book four of the series -- all the mortal heroes are dead... or, become immortal themselves. The immortals are, in general, not nice. They lie, cheat, kill and control. Yet they are sympathetic characters. Their murderous foibles are understandable, or at least explained in terms of a very-long-life perspective. I suspect, though, that if I read books one, two or three, I would wonder what had happened to the concept of the happy ending! As I read book four, however, I could see that some grand conclusion was going to be reached... and it was... though not quite as I expected (or hoped). And the last few chapters built an expectation that there could be even more books -- with the same key characters but in a totally different world. An enjoyable book -- I look forward to volumes five and six and so on...
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