The Last Dark
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780575083448 (0575083441)
Publish date: October 17th 2013
Publisher: Gollancz
Edition language: English
Series: Thomas Covenant Series 0 (#10)
An excellent conclusion to a great adventure
More dithering, agonizing and metaconflict, but finally an ending, and a not wholly unsatisfying one at that. Rating rounded up out of sheer satisfaction at having finally finished this series begun in my early teens, more than thirty years ago.
In hindsight one can see the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant building up to the Götterdämmerung that is The Last Dark.† In the first Chronicle, Thomas Covenant, an outcast leper in our world, is translated to the Land. There one’s physical and mental health are tangible, and all is threatened by Lord ...