Name: The Lair Of Bones
ISBN: 9780748120826

David Farland

The stars fall from heaven and the very earth trembles in pain. With Gaborn's kingdom of Mystarria in ruins, four powerful kings march to claim its spoils, even as a vast army of reavers sallies forth from the underworld, intending to put an end to mankind. In one last-ditch effort to heal the earth, the wizardborn Averan leads the Earth King, Gaborn Val Orden, far below the surface to the Lair of Bones, to face the leader of the reaver hordes. There Gaborn must confront an ancient evil - before the world is torn apart. . .

Book 4 of the Runelords

The Lair Of Bones

In the wake of the defeat of the dark forces, Prince Gaborn, the Earth King, faces a final confrontation with his supernatural enemy Raj Ahten and with the Reavers in their own cavernous underground lair, where the evil sorcerer One True Master waits in the Lair of Bones for an epic struggle in which the very survival of all humankind is at stake. By the author of Wizardborn. Reprint.

The Lair of Bones

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This book, The Lair of Bones(The Runelords, #4), feels like the final book in this series…even though there are still FOUR MORE after this one. It is, however, the last of this series that I had previously read and now I more fully remember why. 

All in all, if you have been reading along with me and are on your own Runelords journey, I think you’ll find that The Lair of Bones is a very satisfying conclusion to this fantasy quartet. Yes, there’s plenty of cliches and plot armor, but it’s a wonderful journey and this book delivers an ending that is pitch perfect in fist pumping fun and bittersweet gut punches. You may well want to stop your Runelords journey right here and be happy with the series you’ve enjoyed so far. You could do it easily as this book wraps up the main storylines perfectly.

Certain works of fantasy are immediately recognizable as monuments, towering above the rest of the category. They have been written by the likes of Stephen R. Donaldson, Robert Jordan, and Terry Goodkind. Now add to that list David Farland, whose epic fantasy series began with The Runelords, continued in Brotherhood of the Wolf and the New York Times bestseller Wizardborn, and reaches its peak now in The Lair of Bones. Prince Gaborn, the Earth King, has defeated the forces arrayed against him each time before: the magical and human forces marshaled by Raj Ahten, who seeks immortality at any cost and has given up his humanity in trade; and the inhuman, innumerable, insectile hordes of the giant Reavers from under the Earth, whose motives are unknowable, but inimical to human life. Now there must be final confrontations, both on the field of battle, with the supernatural creature that Raj Ahten has become, and underground, in the cavernous homeland of the Reavers, where the sorcerous One True Master who rules them all lies in wait--in the Lair of Bones. The survival of the human race on Earth is at stake.

The Lair Of Bones Book 4 of the Runelords

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