Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34011 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-05
• Binding: Paperback
• 624 pages

Synopsis
The spellbinding final instalment of The Alliance of Light. Though Athera may be free, the fight is far from over! The heartstopping conclusion to the Alliance of Light series brings Lysaer's army of Light to besiege the great citadel of Alestron. Master of Shadow, Arithon, with barely a moment's recuperation from his victory over the necromancers, has discovered that young Jeynsa s'Valerient whom he has sworn to protect, has joined the ranks of his disowned allies within the threatened citadel. Worse, following a failed rescue attempt, his beloved Elaira, his double, Fionn Areth, and the spellbinder Dakar are also trapped within Alestron's walls. The chancy wiles of Davien the betrayer must spirit Arithon across the enemy lines to attempt a bold and perilous rescue mission. Arithon must seek the heartcore of his talent, even while embroiled in a savage battle against those he has vowed to protect. But treachery strikes from deep within the duke's ranks. Lysaer's fanatics will be unleashed to claim their bloody revenge.With the Fellowship Sorcerers in mortal danger, and all under threat from a collapsing grimward, Davien the betrayer is unable to intercede to save his colleagues and so will be forced to invoke the dire terms of an ancient and most secretive bargain.

Arithon stands alone at the hour of reckoning as the true purpose of the Koriani enchantresses becomes, at long last fully, unveiled -- with the covetous Prime Matriarch now poised to snatch a prize, a prize beyond that of merely integrity and life!

Customer Reviews

So Disappointing
Have I been reading the same book as the other reviewers? I've followed this series from book one and up until Traitors Knot thought it was by far the best fantasy series I had ever read.Then the rot set in with TN, the characters became more improbable and stopped behaving as they had in the past for no apparent reason, and I began not to enjoy. I had hoped for an improvement in what was supposed to be the "final" book but I have been sadly disappointed. The bizzare behaviour of some of the characters was tiresome and did not fit with their past personalities. The whole book seemed mainly descriptive padding and there was no real conclusion to anything. Somehow I have stopped caring about the people any more, they have become unpleasant and the way every scene or action is always filled with "extreme" emotions means everything loses impact.I had hoped eventually to read the real "final" book to find out what happens to the main characters but clearly this series is going to be spun out as long as possible. As the main protagonists have at least a 500 year life expectancy and the books only cover the first 30 - 40 years it looks as though there are several dozen more to come. Sorry, I have lost my patience with the series and I won't be bothering with any more.

Overwrought and overlong
This series started so well, but somewhere along the way it turned into a soap-opera. I kept up with each installment, but my enthusiasm began to wane as the longwinded flowery prose dragged on and on and on....

It got to the point that I felt that I had to keep reading, as I have already invested so much time into the books. Was Stormed Fortress really going to be the end of the marathon? I thought so, but as I read though the final pages I realised that no - the show must still go on.

Unfortunately, as each book comes out and time goes on, the writing becomes even more self indulgent and it gets harder to stomach - much like the previous fawning 'reviews' for this book.

This book ended up getting thrown across the room in disgust. My journey with Janny ends here.

A plea to Amazon.co.uk
This was a fantastic ending to Arc III, and was well worth the long wait! I can't wait for the next Arc to be published.
To the un-initiated, you don't know what you are missing! Janny Wurts is a brilliant author.

To finish, this is a plea to Amazon to keep publishing her books. You will break our hearts if you stop, and leave us in agonising suspense as to the fate of Arithon et al. So, please, please keep up the good work!