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  • A boring read, too difficult to slog through.

  • When I realized I was slogging through another 6 or 7 page long expository narration by another long-winded character, I had to just put down and abandon Runes of the Earth. In the Land, nobody seems capable of giving a short or succinct answer, and that's the problem. The book collapses under the w ... Continue

    When I realized I was slogging through another 6 or 7 page long expository narration by another long-winded character, I had to just put down and abandon Runes of the Earth. In the Land, nobody seems capable of giving a short or succinct answer, and that's the problem. The book collapses under the weight of the world that has been previously created and the lore that has come before. It's all much too verbose and ultimately unreadable for me. Normally I relish a book that is smartly written and uses words that force me to expand my own vocabulary, but it seems like Donaldson consulted a thesaurus to find a bigger, more complicated and not-well-known term for just about everything. Lengthy descriptions of everything, even the most mundane and seemingly meaningless details. I loved the original Thomas Covenant books in my youth, and was excited when I cam across this continuation. But I just couldn't get through it. If the characters or the story had been more compelling, I'm sure I would continue but at just over 200 pages in, I don't find myself caring enough to continue.

    

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More than twenty years ago, Stephen R. Donaldson set a literary landmark with the first fantasy bestseller. His New York Times bestselling series, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, transformed modern fantasy. Now, at long last, Donaldson introduces the first novel of the much-awaited, four-volume finale to the series that's sold more than ten million copies.

Thomas Covenant lost everything. Abandoned by his wife and child, sick and alone, he was transported while unconscious to a magical, dreamlike world called the Land. Convinced it was all a delusion, Covenant was christened The Unbeliever by the Land's inhabitants-but gave his life to save this newfound world he came to regard as precious.

Ten years after Covenant's death, Linden Avery still mourns for her beloved companion. But a violent confrontation with Covenant's son- who is doing the evil Lord Foul's bidding-forces her back to the Land, where a dark malevolence is about to unmake the laws of nature-and of life and death itself.

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