The Gate Of Gods: Book Three Of The Fall Of Ile-rien [Paperback]

Martha Wells (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Eos (2005)
• ISBN-10: 0380977907
• ISBN-13: 978-0380977901
• ASIN: B002KZU77E
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,867,271 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Martha Wells is the author of eleven fantasy novels, including Wheel of the Infinite, City of Bones, The Element of Fire, and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer. Her most recent fantasy novels are The Cloud Roads and The Serpent Sea, to be published by Night Shade Books in 2011 and 2012. She has also written a fantasy trilogy: The Wizard Hunters, The Ships of Air, and The Gate of Gods, all currently out in paperback from HarperCollins Eos. She has had short stories in the magazines Black Gate, Realms of Fantasy, Lone Star Stories, and Stargate Magazine, and in the Tsunami Relief anthology Elemental and The Year's Best Fantasy #7. She has essays in the nonfiction anthologies Farscape Forever and Mapping the World of Harry Potter from BenBella Books. She has also written two media-tie-in novels, Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary and Stargate Atlantis: Entanglement. Her books have been published in eight languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Dutch, and her web site is www.marthawells.com.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Satisfying concusion to a superior fantasy series, November 6, 2005

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Kathbyrd "kathbyrd" (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Gate of Gods: Book Three of the Fall of Ile-Rien (Hardcover)

This is a very satisfying conclusion to Martha Well's Fall of Ile Rien series. It is a strong on action, but also continues developing the relationships, the world, and the cultures of all those involved. It also manages to tie elements together into a satifying bow without feeling pat -- including elements from earlier Ile Rien novels. Tremaine Valiarde is now one of my favorite fictional female characters, with some of the same elements that make Harriet Vane (of Dorothy Sayers) enjoyable to meet and root for. My only regret is that the series is complete -- I'll look forward to Well's next work.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 4 out of 5 aint bad, August 26, 2006

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C. Stevens (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Gate of Gods: Book Three of The Fall of Ile-Rien (Fall of the Ile-Rien) (Mass Market Paperback)

I have read all of Martha Wells' books and have enjoyed each of them a great deal. Her world building is always rich and original, her prose is sharp, her plots well paced and engaging, and her characters likeable...and that is a lot to like (far more than most fantasies I've read). There was a bit to much deus ex machina in the series (well...literally this time)...and as some reviewers said not a great deal of insight into the characters motivations...and after reading all of her books there is a...familiarity about the characters despite the very different backgrounds...but make no mistake, this is GOOD fantasy, and if it's not high literature, so be it...I'll still be eagerly awaiting her next work.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A world is saved but our characters don't grow much more, January 3, 2006

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K. Maxwell "katmax1" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Gate of Gods: Book Three of the Fall of Ile-Rien (Hardcover)

While I enjoyed the first two books in this series, I would have to say that this volume was a disappointment to me. The mystery behind the Gardier aggression, the fate of Arisilde and the future of Tremaine's and Ilias relationship is resolved in this novel, but despite that I ended the book feeling dissatisfied.

The pace of this book seemed more uneven and slower than the previous two novels, and at the end of it, while the war is finished, and Tremaine is no longer suicidal, I didn't feel like I had a real insight to Tremaine's character aside from some nasty episodes in her past that made her feel that society wasn't "worth it". On reflection this is a series I should have bought in paperback given my feeling of let down at the end, but it had some unique moments, especially in book 2 on "the Ravenna".