... It gives a fair bit of it away too, doesn't it???? (You have been warned, lol!!!)
[EDIT] agree with Seareach on this one - this really does contain an awful lot of information about the new book - read at your peril! Spoiler
Synopsis
Fatal Revenant, Book Two of "The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant," begins where The Runes of the Earth ended: Linden Avery watches from a balcony while Thomas Covenant and her adopted son, Jeremiah, ride desperately toward Revelstone. But their reunion has vast consequences which she could not have foreseen. Soon she is betrayed by the people whom she most needs to trust. Transported deep into the Land's past, she is forced to confront mysterious strangers, legendary heroes, and ancient evils, and to stand alone against the malevolence of the Despiser's minions. Abandoned in Garroting Deep, the most bloodthirsty of the Land's long-dead forests, she reaches a fearsome decision: she determines to reshape reality in an attempt to end the Despiser's evil and her son's suffering. However, her purpose requires her to find Loric's krill, a weapon abandoned among the Hills of Andelain millennia ago. And she needs the aid of friends and allies who will turn against her if she reveals her intent. Attacked by enemies old and new, and harried by strange beings with ambiguous agendas, she strives toward Andelain. But the ravenous skurj are rising, and all of her actions appear to serve her worst foes.
I remember when I first read about Ruins and Roger being a baddie before I even picked up the book, it sort of spoiled it for me for a bit.
This Amazon spoiler doesn't really spoil it except for one part: Spoiler
I'd still rather not have known about the krill attempt until I read about it in the book.
But, oh well.
Cowboy: Why you doin' this, Doc?
Doc Holliday: Because Wyatt Earp is my friend.
Cowboy: Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends.
Doc Holliday: ... I don't.
... sorry guys - was offline - still, nm - the link's up. I was surprised by the runes revelation obviously, but also by the other info about FR, none of which we knew before...
dlbpharmd wrote:I read the synopsis - I don't think there is anything there that an astute reader wouldn't expect.
Well, I'd have to say that, not being a die-hard chronicles fan, I probably wouldn't have necessarily come to all those conclusions...but that's just me...and that's a moot point anyway.
I agree with seareach ... I read this whole thing on the GI and was shocked! Spoiler
the krill, the skurg, going WAAAY back in time, etc, etc...
But I must confess, I am not a reader who likes to try and see through to the end. I like to be carried along and let the story spring itself at me...
Still, I wish I had not read that GI posting... <shrug>
~...with a floating smile and a light blue sponge...~
Okay, I know this is going to sound like I'm a member of THOOLAH (not that it's necessarily a bad thing), but Spoiler
is anyone else just a little bummed out to read this blurb and pretty take away from it that Thomas Covenant isn't becoming more of the main Point Of View character ?
I don't hate Linden, but I must admit after reading through the 2nd Chrons a fourth and fifth time I realized just how much Donaldson stayed out of Covenant's head and focued more on Linden's thoughts.
I realize Covenant was without his health sense and stayed quite paralyzed throughout The One Tree so Donaldson gave us a perspective to keep the story going without getting into the POV of secondary characters such as Pitchwife and Brinn etc.... Spoiler
But this is The Last Chronicles of <b>Thomas Covenant</b>...not Linden Avery...
I'll still read it and love it...but thought this idea kinda fit this topic considering the spoiler leak.
Brian: Who cured you? Ex-Leper: Jesus did, sir. I was hopping along, minding my own business, all of a sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by-your-leave! "You're cured, mate." Bloody do-gooder. Brian: Well, why don't you go and tell him you want to be a leper again? Ex-Leper: Uh, I could do that sir, yeah. Yeah, I could do that I suppose. What I was thinking was I was going to ask him if he could make me a bit lame in one leg during the middle of the week. You know, something beggable, but not leprosy, which is a pain in the @$$ to be blunt and excuse my French, sir.
-jay
