The Tide Lords have gathered in Jelidia and find they must find the Chaos Crystal that brought them to this world. It is discovered that Elyssa, Scard Crasii, Warlock's cruel immortal mistress knows the location of the Chaos crystal and with every immortal searching for the crystal the stakes are high.
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Jennifer Fallon was born in Melbourne, Australia, and lived in there until she was 11 when her father, a senior public servant, was transferred to the national capital, Canberra. She lived in and around Canberra for about 8 years and went to school at Catholic Girls High School (now Mercy College) in Braddon. She is the ninth child in a family of 13 girls.
The author lived in the Northern Territory from 1980 to 2010.
Jennifer has two daughters and a son. She has had over 50 foster children and friends refer to her home as "the ashram" due to the large number of strays people that still inhabit her house at irregular intervals.
Jennifer has worked as a youth worker, a store detective, shop assistant, an advertising sales rep and executive secretary, among other things. She has managed 2 hire car companies, an ISP, a video shop, been a state manager for an international cosmetics company and worked as a project manager for Territory Health Services. Jennifer is an accredited workplace trainer and has a Masters of Arts in Research and also the regular movie reviewer for ABC Radio in regional Western Australia.
In 1995, after her late husband famously advised her to 'quit writing and be a better housewife, because you're never going to get published', Jennifer decided to either get published by the year 2000 or give up writing and get a real job. Significantly, being a better housewife did not factor into her plans.
Her first series, The Demon Child Trilogy, was released in August 2000 in Australia and hit the bestseller list the first week it was released and was shortlisted for the 2000 Aurealis Awards as the best Fantasy of 2000.
She has since been shortlisted for another Aurealis, the David Gemmell Legends of Fantasy award and the Romantic Times Best Fantasy award.
Her books are released all over the world and translated into a number of different languages.
Jennifer now lives in New Zealand where she writes full time and runs up the Reynox International Writers Centre.
The author lived in the Northern Territory from 1980 to 2010.
Jennifer has two daughters and a son. She has had over 50 foster children and friends refer to her home as "the ashram" due to the large number of strays people that still inhabit her house at irregular intervals.
Jennifer has worked as a youth worker, a store detective, shop assistant, an advertising sales rep and executive secretary, among other things. She has managed 2 hire car companies, an ISP, a video shop, been a state manager for an international cosmetics company and worked as a project manager for Territory Health Services. Jennifer is an accredited workplace trainer and has a Masters of Arts in Research and also the regular movie reviewer for ABC Radio in regional Western Australia.
In 1995, after her late husband famously advised her to 'quit writing and be a better housewife, because you're never going to get published', Jennifer decided to either get published by the year 2000 or give up writing and get a real job. Significantly, being a better housewife did not factor into her plans.
Her first series, The Demon Child Trilogy, was released in August 2000 in Australia and hit the bestseller list the first week it was released and was shortlisted for the 2000 Aurealis Awards as the best Fantasy of 2000.
She has since been shortlisted for another Aurealis, the David Gemmell Legends of Fantasy award and the Romantic Times Best Fantasy award.
Her books are released all over the world and translated into a number of different languages.
Jennifer now lives in New Zealand where she writes full time and runs up the Reynox International Writers Centre.
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A letter to the author (SPOILERS!),
By Mica (Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Chaos Crystal (Paperback)
The Chaos Crystal.I read 3 books to get to this and was so disappointed. All this reading and it's like the author just couldn't give a damn what happened, she just wanted to wrap up the story. So many things wrong with this fourth book, from repeating the same story over and over from varying characters perspectives, giving away the juicy plot point (the whole rift idea) early in the beginning, to the horrible ending where the world you'd come to love and characters you'd thought were decent are destroyed by monstrous characters you never really cared about because they were so unlikeable. And then there is the Arkady phenonemon. 'Thank you' for the thorough explanation as to her sudden reappearance and immortality?! Why isn't this explained? It's the end of the book and you can't just leave it like that and expect the reader to be satisfied with a cliffhanger ending that is never going to be resolved and that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever! How is she immortal now, how, how, HOW? Yes we can speculate, but that's not how these things work, they need to make legitmate sense when we have been reading these books and come to understand YOUR rules as to what laws govern the realities of this universe you created. It's a terrible cop out to quickly sum up a book, just to give it an ending that works in your head but certainly not the readers. Such a tragic disappointment to someone who loves fantasy and especially Aussie fantasy writers. I know writing books is hard, but you just can't do this to your readers, no matter how confident you feel of your style. We dedicated our imaginations and time to your story and you give us this really, really bad ending that kinda makes me angry and so disheartened. The first three books were quite good so thankyou for allowing my imagination to see these worlds and characters and fascinating ideas of immortality and how people would deal with it, but the fourth is a failure and thus ruins the series. Thankyou for writing the first three, but you shouldn't have written the fourth as you did, you should have known better and you should have just not written it if it was going to be like this or at least spent more time getting it right. So sad it sucked. oh well. Thankyou, but Next..
4.0 out of 5 stars
Moving to grey,
By Nick F. (MD, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Chaos Crystal (Paperback)
Be warned: This book does not follow the steps of the previous 3.3,5 stars in my opinion The story turns blacker, the good and bad guys don't always get what they deserve, and all immortals appear to act selfishly and calculating. Everyone has an agenda. The good guys do not act noble and even when they do, the results of their actions are often devastating due to incomplete information as [Spoilers] for example Arkady's father suicidal behavior, Arkady knifing the Warlord, and Warlord's devastation of the world (to what degree is left open) the matters move too fast at the last chapter, and are somewhat unexpected and unconventional (Arkady is left for some (did I read millions, or was it thousands??) years drifting in space - lost fleet style)... Not worth the extraordinary price, but worth to be read eventually from anyone who has followed the story so far. If nothing else it offers much more food for thought about human life and love though less entertainment.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Spectacular Conclusion to an Amazing Saga...or is it?,
By Marina Varai "irenesharda" (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Chaos Crystal (Paperback)
I have been reading this series from start to finish and have devoured and relished each and every word. The Immortal Prince (Tide Lords Quartet)introduced me to Fallon and I have loved all of her work ever since. Every single book in the Tide Lords Saga is a page-turner and I have burned many a midnight oil reading them. The Chaos Crystal was no different. And I have to say that the while I worried about what the conclusion to such an involved story like this might be, I have to say that I should not have been worried. The end, if you wish to call it that, I thought was great considering the genre of story this is and was not altogether unexpected. I've seen that quite a few don't like the ending but I found it amazing, adrenaline-pumping, and probably the perfect "end" when it comes to a story about pantheistisc, all-powerful, hard-hearted immortals who will live thoughout time, with nothing but time on their hands. I say "end" because as you might expect with type of story, she leaves an open ending for the option to write more. I sincerely hope she does, as I truly enjoy the immortals and their journey through eternity.SPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERS....................... This book revealed a lot this time around, from the confirmed realization that Lukys, Maralyce, and the rest of the 5 original immortals are actually not just immortals, but ALIEN immortals. They have actually been world-hopping for millions of years, so long that they have actually visually aged. Once all this is put into perspective, it is realized just how young Cayal and the others are, and that there just is NO WAY to kill these people. After you come to realize that, the ending, and the fact that Amyrantha is doomed, becomes elementary. There are a few plot holes in places, such as what happens to the other immortals left behind on destroyed worlds since even that won't kill them, what happend to Elyssa after Lukys tried to force her into Arkady's body. How did Arkady become immortal? But in the end, you just kinda go along with it, because you're caught up in the moment. It's kinda cool the twist she puts at the end of the immortals making their way to our world, and I love that she has left whether Arkady goes with Declan or Cayal, up to the readers. Arkady's love for Declan was that sappy kinda love back when he had just become immortal, but now that more than 65 million years have gone by, the guy is a different person altogether, and has become a true immortal at heart. Arkady has been asleep all that time, so there's bound to be some clashes, plus she has lost her home and is on a world she has nothing about. Cayal has also grown and changed, and both men love her in their own way. So she could end up with either one, or both, as she is now immortal and has eternity to be with either. All in all, I love this series and would and will be reading it, again and again.
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