The long-awaited sequel to The Runes of the Earth returns readers to the Land-and opens with the reunion of Linden Avery and Thomas Covenant!
Linden Avery, who loved Thomas Covenant and watched him die, has returned to the Land in search of her kidnapped son, Jeremiah. As Fatal Revenant begins, Linden watches from the battlements of Revelstone when the impossible happens-riding ahead of the hordes attacking Revelstone are Jeremiah and Covenant himself, apparently very much alive.
Here in the Land, Jeremiah is healed of the mental condition that had kept him mute and unresponsive for so many years. He is full of life, and devoted to Covenant. But Covenant is strangely changed. Sarcastic and bragging, he no longer seems like the man whom Linden adored. And yet he says he has a plan: he will take her and Jeremiah to a place where they can find a pure source of Earthpower and, after he has achieved his own purposes, Linden will be free to use that great power to go home, to take Jeremiah home, or to do anything else she sees fit. Even though she distrusts the seemingly different man he has now become, how can she make any choice except to follow him?
Their journey will cover unimaginable distances through the Land-even through time itself-and will test Linden's courage again and again. In the end, fulfilling her destiny will call for a terrible leap of faith: Can she give up everything she thought had been restored to her, for the sake of the Land?
Hm, very interesting.
But how serious are those previews from amazon? How much can they know?
It seems that they have knowledge of the three coming (and eagerly awaited) books. But would SRD tell them so much (is there even so much written, planned?)
Every human makes mistakes. The trick is to do them, when nobody is watching (P. Ustinov)
The last Amazon preview (for Runes of the Earth) was fairly accurate - accurate enough that SRD was annoyed that it showed up so early. Will have to see what he says about this one.
You do not hear, and so you cannot be redeemed.
In the name of their ancient pride and humiliation, they had made commitments with no possible outcome except bereavement.
He knew only that they had never striven to reject the boundaries of themselves.
Seareach wrote:He wrote the one that turned up on Amazon.co.uk so I assume he wrote this one as well.
Okay, that´s a very interesting point.
Spoiler
Covenant turning in Foul: TC told that he is just one side of Foul (or otherwise). Perhaps TC must became Foul, so that there will be a fusion of both sides, and so that there can a solusion
Every human makes mistakes. The trick is to do them, when nobody is watching (P. Ustinov)
On Covenant taking Linden to a Pure Source of Earthpower: It's been a while since I read IEW, and my copy is with a friend, but wasn't the Seventh Ward, the Power of Command, a 'pure' source of earthpower? I seem to recall that if you drank it, and asked the moutain itself to fall down, it would happen. Or anything else that you could think of that could have been effected with Earthpower.
Is Covenant taking Linden to the Seventh Ward? I also seem to recall that it would destroy any mortal who used it. I could be wrong though. But Covenant's no longer mortal. And Wild Magic seems to be able to break all the rules.
It's possible that TC will take Linden to the PoC, but remember that the access to the Earthblood was destroyed in Elena's battle with Kevin, so a new way would have to be discovered. Also, the PoC does not necessarily destroy the mortal who drinks it, it just happens that Elena was destroyed as a result.
Oops, wrong forum for me. I want to know nothing whatsoever about the content or plot of Fatal Revenant or the following two books in the series.
I was hoping for some totally uninformed speculation.
I even avoid reading the descriptions of books on books themselves [any fiction book] - unless I'm just browsing to find something of course. I've made the mistake of reading a book cover's description and had it give away 200 pages of 500.
But thank you for the warning about Amazon. I may buy the book there, but I won't read about it! I'll wait till it's in my greedy little hands to read for myself.
Kokopelli would be a cool avatar for me.
Trees, by Joyce Kilmer
- I think that I shall never see,
- A poem as lovely as a tree. (STOP READING poem FOREVER, here! Go look OUTDOORS.)
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