Product Description

The company has been scattered far and wide in its mission to prepare Faltha for war - now the armies of the Destroyer are near and invasion is imminent. The small group now possesses the Jugom Ark, the flaming arrow of legend that, it is believed, will defeat their enemy. And when Leith returns to the city of Instruere carrying the Ark, thousands of people flock to him to fight for Faltha in the coming battle. But Leith is finding it difficult to accept people's faith in him, and his role as custodian of this sacred artefact. Until the events of 2,000 years ago finally play out in the present ...As the land darkens under the shadow of impending battle, the company must strive against treachery and self-doubt - for a great evil approaches.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11966 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 640 pages

About the Author
Russell lectures in Geography and manages a small mapmaking business. He lives in New Zealand with his wife and two children.

Customer Reviews

Absolute rubbish
I really an reluctant to write such a negative review as this will be, but i am so annoyed that this time i will.

All the faults of the first two novels are magnified here, and are joined by new and sigificant other examples of bad writing. For example the plot of the novel now makes so little sense that it deserves being laughed at. Major Characters are introduced at a whim and then vanish, thier contribution to the novel mostly being to bloat the length of the text. Other characters that have been central to the story suddenly stop being referd to, even though thier sidelinning is actual a major part of the story. Why do Leith's parents not talk to him after his fight with Hal? Why does Phemandarac not instruct Leith in the use of the Jugom Arc, as was going to? These and many other plot holes are never filled, we are left with a story that no longer makes sense.

The attention to the landscape that served the first two novels so well and then reasonably, in this novel is just bloat. It feels like having invented this world the author could but resist including every single piece of it. If the physical and political structure of the world was essential to the story, or was even just intrestingly grafted on to it, then i would applaude; but here it is just random extra distracting and illogical rubbish. Here is just one example of what i am complaining about that will not reveal the plot; evil characters like the that are defeated throughout the series are left alive and free to return again and again and again. There is no explanation why they are not punnished, by any strech of the imagination they would at least not be left free to do as they will, and if they are to be left free thre must be some explanation of why, there is no such explanation here, none that does not make me roll my eyes in disgust at such shoddy writing.

The ending is stupid. After wading through this nonsense the story is resolved by something that just happens, having no tracable origin in the text before it just happens. It smells of being just made up on the spot, like a lot of this story.

Right Hand of God
This is a fantastic book. Yes, the trilogy is long and does take perseverance, but I found it a thrilling and very moving read. I had been looking for a long time for a book to compare with Tolkien's masterpiece - and this is it!

Not the best by Russell
OK not a favourite, the conclusion of the trilogy and one that really did feel like it relied a little too much on the preconceptions of a tolkienesque mankind. To say that it seems simplistic really isn't giving the novel credit however the tale does keep you entertained and whilst the protagonist seems to be fighting against the control of the mystical arrow (in a certain way a similarity to Tolkiens Ring.) Whilst it does do the job that is promised it does feel like the tale took too long in the traveling and could have been cut down by at least a hundred pages.