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Chargement... The Gathering Storm (2003)par Kate Elliott
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  proustbot | Jun 19, 2023 |   Ooof, Book Five is a monster and I say that knowing perfectly well that every volume in this series could easily be a doorstop. Liath has returned from walking the spheres and the cataclysm to come is very near. Sanglant has gathered an army (and found some powerful sorcerous allies) but Anne and her cadre has been planning for this moment her entire life. Alain returns to the present and returns to breaking my heart. He has no kin or resources and ends up being a scapegoat to local unrest. Wendar & Varre are suffering greatly while King Henry is bespelled in a foreign kingdom chasing empire. The wolves are circling Wendar & Varre but I can't help but want the Eika to appear as at least Stronghand will help Alain. The struggle is real in this one and gives another window into what I love in Elliott's work. You can follow the plans and struggles of a character for books for them to POOF right out of existence as they come right up against the machinations of another character. It's a lot to take but in the best possible way. (  ) sgwordy | Dec 31, 2022 |  ) wagner.sarah35 | Dec 12, 2020 | ) renbedell | Nov 23, 2020 | ) BookstoogeLT | Dec 10, 2016 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Set in an alternate Europe where bloody conflicts rage, the fifth book of the Crown of Stars epic fantasy series continues the world-shaking conflict for the survival of humanity The long-dreaded cataclysm is about to descend on the world as the lost land of the Aoi returns to the Earth from which it was cast forth millennia ago. And though Liath has at last found her way back to Earth, she knows disaster will soon follow her. Yet just how little time remains to avert humanity's destruction she discovers to her horror only when she learns that her brief stay in the bespelled land has actually kept her from her family and allies for nearly four years. In that time, Sanglant has mobilized an army and journeyed to the land of the griffins, intent on forging an alliance to stand against the forces which are determined to rework the spell that originally exiled the Aoi and their lands from the world. Alain, caught up by Liath as she makes her way back to her own world and time, has been returned to the present bereft of all that matters to him. And though for a while he finds refuge in a monastery, he is soon condemned to a terrible fate. His only hope of rescue lies with the Eika leader Stronghand, who has begun a campaign of conquest into the human lands. And even as these diverse forces struggle to avert total ruin, the mathematici, led by Anne and Hugh, strive to re-create the original spell which exiled the ancient Aoi, neither knowing nor caring that their magical workings could tear their world apart.... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The pawns deployed in the last four volumes finally come home to roost in The Gathering Storm as everyone hustles into position to facilitate two divergent apocalypses. The rising action and definite climax make the novel much shapelier than its predecessors, and even the unresolved sub-plots involving Alain and Hanna have psychological structure: Alain completes the process of grieving for his lost wife while Hanna recovers from her prior captivity. The novel ends on a clanging note as Sanglant defeats his possessed father, Liath rends her mother's plans, and the earth endures a cataclysmic collision. Given all that tumult, the novel's final scene--in which Alain watches a dragon rise from the sea--is surprisingly serene and graceful.