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Fatal Revenant listed on Amazon uk!!!!
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:13 pm
by renny
date 18/10 2007!
page count 896!
long time to wait though.....
does anyone know if this date is for real?
and perhaps as important does anyone know of he has started writing the 3rd book yet?
[Edit to give link.-jay]
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0575076003/ ... 21-2517261
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:08 am
by MrKABC
OCTOBER of NEXT year??????
I don't know if I can stand the torment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BEWARE!!! MASSIVE SPOILERS!!!
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:33 am
by vasinian
... 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!
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.
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:03 pm
by kevinswatch
Post a link, man! For the love of God, post a link!!!
-jay
[Edit]
Wow, that really does give away a lot.
Perhaps it's time that I open up the FR Forum, so people can discuss and speculate these things in a spoilered environment?
I think it's time.-jay
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:31 pm
by onewyteduck
Not gonna' read this! No way, no how! GET BEHIND ME SATAN!
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:34 pm
by A Gunslinger
Vasinian...you must post a link to this. Else, we will think it a hoax. A well-written hoax, but a hoax.
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:37 pm
by I'm Murrin
It's on Amazon.co.uk, as Seareach mentioned in the other thread.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0575076003
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:43 pm
by A Gunslinger
Thanks for the link. The spoiler is no big deal.
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:24 pm
by Kil Tyme
Ya, read it anyway now...very cool.
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:
I'd still rather not have known about the krill attempt until I read about it in the book.
But, oh well.
oops
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:12 am
by vasinian
... 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...
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:27 am
by drew
...so who else was hoping to see a glimpse of the cover?
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:23 pm
by jwaneeta
drew wrote:...so who else was hoping to see a glimpse of the cover?
Me.
But the covers usually disappoint me, so I'd feel like a dork in the event anyway.
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:27 pm
by Creator
But I will get the ARC!!!
Mwa ha ha haaaa!!!
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:15 pm
by Avatar
Whoa...looks like the next one is going to be rough.
Better enjoy this forum while I can huh? As soon as FR is out anywhere, I won't be back here 'til I've read it.
--A
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:00 pm
by Buckarama
Was trying to check the american Amazon but they seem to be down, or they just don't like me.
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:14 pm
by A Gunslinger
Buckarama wrote:Was trying to check the american Amazon but they seem to be down, or they just don't like me.
With a name like Buckarama...who could not like you?
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:34 pm
by dlbpharmd
I read the synopsis - I don't think there is anything there that an astute reader wouldn't expect.
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:41 pm
by Seareach
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.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:13 pm
by Usivius
I agree with seareach ... I read this whole thing on the GI and was shocked!
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>
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:50 pm
by Luke The Unbeliever
Okay, I know this is going to sound like I'm a member of THOOLAH (not that it's necessarily a bad thing), but
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....
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.