Steven Taylor has cast the malevolent soul of Nerak into the Fold's inky void, but the evil that controlled Nerak and brutalized the people of Eldarn has escaped and captured Mark Jenkins. Eldarn's fate still hangs in the balance, and Steven remains the land's only real hope. As he and his companions make their way across country—rallying what remains of their allies—Mark disappears into the foothills of the Blackstone Mountains, determined to excavate the Larion spell table and use its awesome power to destroy Eldarn. Is Steven willing to kill his best friend and face eternal exile in Eldarn to save two worlds from annihilation?
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Robert Scott and Jay Gordon are coauthors of The Eldarn Sequence series.
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Book Review: "The Larion Senators",
By Richard Marcus (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Larion Senators: The Eldarn Sequence Book 3 (Paperback)
My head is still reeling from the ride of reading The Larion Senators, and bringing that journey to its successful conclusion.
Don't worry I'm not going to tell you how it ends, except to say that it doesn't end it begins, but I do want to tell you what an excellent job was done in bringing the story to it's conclusion. Robert and Jay had left us with a pretty nasty cliff-hanger at the end of book two (if you haven't read that don't worry I won't even give that away) and the challenge as far as I could see was going to be creating a plausible way out of it. Even with 550 plus pages, I thought they'd be hard pressed to accomplish that and stitch together all the loose ends that have been left dangling since book one. When you write fantasy or other sorts of speculative fiction you are able to define the rules your world abides by, thus allowing your characters to accomplish certain feats that they wouldn't be able to if they were living in our reality. However, you are bound to abide by your own rules and not take any short cuts to solve your dilemmas. You are as much a prisoner of the world you have created as your characters All the way through the first two books, Robert and Jay were scrupulous in making sure that the characters kept to the limits of their abilities. While Steven Taylor learned how to control the magic he discovered was his in Eldarn, and began to understand just how powerful he could be, nothing he did was outside the realm of possible as far his character was concerned. It's wonderful to see that adhered to faithfully right through to the end of the books. There is precedent for everything that occurs and nothing is pulled out of a hat in order to save the day in that final moment when all seems lost...at no matter what point it occurs in the story. But, it's that sort of attention to detail that has distinguished this series from the start. Where it really comes through is the characterization and the development of the relationships between the characters as the story progresses. Whether it's sexual tension between Hannah and Hoyt after their prolonged time together in emotionally trying situations, Garec's struggles with his conscience about his ability as a killer, or Gilmour desperately trying to find out just what his role will be in the final confrontation, each process is organic and has the ring of authenticity to it. When The Hickory Staff was published in 2005 there were two living authors, and before Jay Gordon succumbed to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gerig's disease in November of that year Lessek's Key had been handed over to the publishers. With The Larion Senators though Robert was left with only the notes that Jay had prepared as an outline and his own awareness of the story. In spite of previously only dealing with specific characters and aspects of the plot, he managed to seamlessly integrate everything and everybody without there being any noticeable difference in style and voice from the previous books. It seems that a trilogy is only ever as good as its third book. The first two books could be brilliant, but if book three is anti-climatic, nobody will remember them. While each book of The Eldarn Sequence up to now has been well written and exciting, somehow Robert has managed to hold something in reserve for The Larion Senators and the tension level and excitement are raised another notch all the way through. It not only lives up to the expectations for a finale, it exceeds them by a long shot. When Jay Gordon was diagnosed with ALS in 2002, he and his son-in-law Robert Scott set out on their quest to write the type of fantasy trilogy that Jay had loved to read. With The Larion Senators about to be released not only will that journey have been completed successfully, it will be done in spectacular fashion.
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Great series,
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This review is from: Eldarn Sequence (Eldarn Sequence 3) (Bk. 3) (Paperback)
This was the third book in a series. I tried to get it through our library and finally gave up. This book was slow in coming to me and by the time I got it, I found a copy for .50 in a library used book sale! Go figure.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
No where near as good as the first book,
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I bought the first and second books when I was in NZ, and I thought that the first book was simply the best book I've ever read. However, the second book was not as good, but I thought I'd give the third a try and was sorely dissappointed. It seems that the problem is the original author died and Robert Scott picked it up. Although he claims that this was Jay Gordon's vision, it is evidently clear that Robert possesses neither the class or wit of Mr. Gordon. I was particularly disturbed that each beautiful love scene Mr. Gordon described in the first book, was turned into tawdry nonsense in the 2nd and 3rd books. It's obvious that Robert Scott has never truly loved a woman in his life, in fact I would say he even hates them, and I have my suspicions that he is actually gay.
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