Topic: Oct. 9th Fatal Revenant comes out.

[Sirgod]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399154469/ref=pe_pe_5050_6734720_pe_snp_469

From Publishers Weekly
This thought-provoking sequel to 2004's The Runes of Earth opens with a bang. Watching from the battlements of Revelstone, a keep besieged by the power-hungry Demondim, battle-weary healer Linden Avery can see both Thomas Covenant and her son, Jeremiah, riding ahead of a wave of pursuers-even though Covenant, her former lover, is dead and mind-damaged Jeremiah has been captured by Lord Foul the Despiser. Odder still, both men treat her almost disparagingly when they reach the keep, forbidding her to touch them and showing no signs of affection. Soon it becomes clear that nothing is what it seems. Avery's fight to save the Land from Lord Foul will take her to the Land's past through the worst kind of betrayal and across its length, but the worst enemy she faces is her self-doubt. Difficult but worthwhile, this complicated and emotional continuation of the Thomas Covenant saga is exactly what Donaldson's fans have been hoping for. (Oct.)
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From Booklist
The second volume (after The Runes of the Earth, 2004) of the final Thomas Covenant tetralogy takes place entirely in the Land, to which Linden Avery has gone in search of her missing autistic son, whom she finds, completely cured and even outspokenly brash, in the company of a hale and hearty Thomas Covenant. The hitch, however, is that they now must find a hidden store of Earthpower, after which Linden may have to choose between using it to return herself and her companions to Earth, health, and happiness or to save the Land from its enemies. Donaldson maintains his propensity for forcing his female characters to jump through flaming hoops, but here the women are more modest, at least physically. Linden's dilemmas and choices are less athletic and more of the ethical variety. Should saving her son, now of sound though rebellious mind, override her duties to the still direly periled Land? The time it takes her, with some counsel from Thomas, to reach a compromise solution and to attempt to carry it out involves much pace-slowing angst, even if it further develops Linden's status as the new saga's real protagonist. The ending is the kind of cliff-hanger that should have readers returning to see how it and the remaining adventures play out. Green, Roland

I know we have some Donaldson fans, and I just wanted to give everyone a heads up.

Stephen

[Abfalter]

The first chapter is online to read on his site and it is fantastic.

I have to admit I was a bit disappointed in the last book.  Donaldson is a fantastic writer, and the book is better than most I read, but it was nowhere near as good as the last two Chronicles, nor was it as good as his Gap series (IMHO). 

But he may have just been laying the groundwork.  This is supposed to be a four book story.  If the preview chapter is any indication, he might be hitting his stride.

[Soreyes]

Oh GAWD!!!!! Not another Covenant book...... the most depressing series that has ever been put out. After the second book. At the time it was a trilogy. I threw the books overboard into the Atlantic. where the lower forms of Marine life could have the pleasure of crapping on on it.


As you can tell. I didn't like the books

[Sirgod]

Oh man, I loved them soreyes. I will admit that when i was a young kid, They where the most emotional and physical exhausting books I had ever read.

The first chapter is online to read on his site and it is fantastic.

I have to admit I was a bit disappointed in the last book.  Donaldson is a fantastic writer, and the book is better than most I read, but it was nowhere near as good as the last two Chronicles, nor was it as good as his Gap series (IMHO). 

But he may have just been laying the groundwork.  This is supposed to be a four book story.  If the preview chapter is any indication, he might be hitting his stride.

I think Runes of the Earth was more like a prequal, getting everything set up so that when she discovers Tom at the End, we are ready to go. Man It's nice seeing you again Scott.

Stephen