Stephen R. Donaldson

Ten years after the death of Thomas Covenant, his one-time companion, Linden Avery, returns home to discover her child building images of the Land with blocks and is once again summoned to take part in an epic battle against evil.

The Runes of the Earth

Cams Campbell

It gets better on a second read after completing the series. 

First review

I don't quite know why I waited so long to read this. I've read the first chronicles twice and the second thrice. I love those books so much. So why did I wait? 

At first I was simply unwilling to start another series before they were finished. I've done that before and it's a pain. Are you listening GRRM? Then I kind of fell out of reading much other than in audiobook format, which AFAIK this first final chronicle is only available abridged. Why do they even do that?

But a recent reread of the second chronicles got me into the final chronicles, at last!

I enjoyed the opening scenes, but when we got to the Land I was a little unsure. It felt like more of the same and a little contrived, but as the story unfolded I got drawn right back in and having to use the dictionary again to look up words whose meaning I had forgotten from the other chronicles. 

I read the last quarter in one sitting - that's where it really ramps up into a cracking finale. 

I'm going to keep going this time and hope that the story continues at this pace. Inchoate, cymar, argent, puissance and all!

The Runes of the Earth

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