Fatal Revenant

I loved the first Chronicles and applauded the second. The third Chronicles began in a cunning way, and I was eager to be swept away into the Land once again. But this book, Fatal Revenant, dragged at my heels. It could be cut by 400 pages and still tell the same story, and the excessive use of anach......more

The disappointment I feel over The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant so far is like an innominate puissance that has left my love for Stephen R. Donaldson quite frangible. (If you have read the book, you’ll understand the obscure word choices.) Like many others, I am a huge fan of the first two ch......more

This was a very difficult book to read and rate. I have never liked the character Linden and in this book some of her chapters were torturous. Now I never liked Thomas Covenant either, but while he was unlikeable and frustrating be was understandable, but Linden just pisses me off and is more irrita......more

Verbose, too long and somewhat up its own ass? Absolutely. But it’s also glorious - a tour of times and places that will touch anyone who’s ever loved the Land right to the quick. Weaving in and out of legends, offering some very clever touches of continuity, and folding in every question you never......more

This will fall under the category of "weird asthetic things I like to notice" but I wonder at what point the publisher and/or the author decided that the cover design needed to be changed from "random fantasy widescreen landscape shot" to "major character glaring at you while standing in front of a......more