The Last Star at Dawn: Book Three of the Lightbringer Trilogy [Paperback]

Oliver Johnson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 10, 2001 | Series: Lightbringer Trilogy (Book 3)

In the final volume of this epic fantasy, good is pitted against evil when the worshipers of the God of Light battle the servants of Eternal Night for the future of Thrull.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The concluding volume of the Lightbringer Trilogy (The Forging of the Shadows; The Nations of the Night) transports the venerable theme of an Olympian war into a fantasy-medieval setting. Reh, the god of light, and Iss, the god of darkness, are the last survivors of an ancient war among deities. Now they face each other through the battles fought by their human champions. If Iss and his champion, Faron Gaton, win, the world will be swathed in eternal nightAand all human beings will be transformed into vampires. But their victory is by no means assured; the forces of virtue have assembled a powerful defense that includes Thalassa the Lightbringer, the warrior Jayal Illgill, the mage Urthred, the adolescent werewolf-prince Fazad and plenty of potent talismans. Good and evil confront each other in a series of battles, journeys, discoveries, revelations and twists of fate, but most of these encounters are driven by plot rather than by character. The warriors' motivations are often so slightly sketched that it is impossible to tell if they are logical. Nonetheless, Johnson's description of the dark, dying world and his above-average battle scenes (particularly the clash of the dragons) make the novel memorable and occasionally lend it an almost Wagnerian grandeur.
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About the Author

Oliver Johnson was born in Paris in 1957. He is currently an Editorial Director at a major London publishing house. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Roc (April 10, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451456459
• ISBN-13: 978-0451456458
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #952,529 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars The Last Star at Dawn, October 9, 2000

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Last Star at Dawn: Book Three of the Lightbringer Trilogy (Paperback)

Unbilivebly horrible conclusion to a grea trilogy! The begining starts a bit strangely but it starts to get good. In the middle of this book i thought that it was going to turn out just as well as the others. But soon to my astonishment it started to get worse and worse and worse and worse and so on and so forth. It looks like it will be a good ending when one of the main cherecters dies, the Baron dies, all of the worm suddenly die and Lord Faran dies in a way that he could have gotten out of after living through so many unescapeable traps. Not only that but Urthred is blinde and Oliver Johnson loeses his touch for great description and good writing!

READ THIS BOOK AT YOUR OWN RISK!

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantasy for grown-ups, March 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Last Star at Dawn: Book Three of the Lightbringer Trilogy (Paperback)

A thrilling conclusion to a great fantasy trilogy. There are action set-pieces in these books that stand up as among the best in fantasy literature. Oliver Johnson is not afraid to take some real narrative risks, and they certainly pay off! For example, the action of the first book takes place over a single night. The second book refuses to pander to the cliffhanger ending of the first, but instead re-introduces its heroes in an unexpected and intriguing way. And the third book is told from a perspective of many years afterwards - I can't say more without giving the game away, but these are characters you really care about and the conclusion of their adventures will have you on the edge of your seat right up to the last page.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disapointing, February 18, 2000

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indigo_monkey "indigo_monkey" (France) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Last Star at Dawn: Book Three of the Lightbringer Trilogy (Paperback)

Well the 2 first books of the series were really good with good plot, powerful vilains and some real good ideas that were quite original for a fantasy book, I really enjoyed the first and second book.

But this conclusion is really not as good as it could have been ! first of all there are major mistakes in the chronology. For example at the begining of the book, it is explicitly written that it is a year since Faran last met with the heroes, he was even obliged to drink from 11 of his reapers of sorrow (1 each month) to survive, BUT some pages later this year transforms in a month ! And I could point to about a dozen more errors like this one. How can someone make such idiotic mistakes, not even a beginner I believe.

Also the death of the vilains are pitiful, Golon passes for the dumbest sorcerer in the entire universe and Faran the luckiest Vampire ever. And then Jayal and the Doppleganger count for nothing their combat is not even described ! They could have been removed from this series without anybody missing them !

The story ends ok, if you enjoed the first books perhaps this details won't affect you for my part I won't pick up another of Oliver Johnson book until he has learn some basics about writing such as being careful of what you said 2 pages ago....