Sky Realm

Crystal Doors #3

by Rebecca Moesta, Kevin J. Anderson

The thrilling conclusion to Kevin Anderson and Rebecca Moesta's Crystal Door's trilogy finds cousins Gwen and Vic and their three friends forging the magical Ring of Might and defending all of the worlds beyond the crystal doors in their final battle with the dark sage, Azric.

When their friend Sharif is called back home by his father, the Sultan, Gwen, Vic and their friends travel to the flying city of Irrakesh. When they return, they find that the Sultan is dying, with Sharif the next in line to be Sultan. Soon he will have to choose between duty and destiny, but before he can do so, Irrakesh is attacked and the city is taken hostage by dark wizards evil army.

In their previous battles, they faced Azric by land and sea, now they take to the skies for the climactic showdown with the evil wizard and all of his dark forces.

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Magic, Middle Grade, Teen, Childrens

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Rebecca Moesta is the author of several science fiction books. Although born in Germany, Rebecca was born to American parents and raised in Pasadena, California, where she lived until her early twenties. Rebecca graduated with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from Cal State L.A.. and shortly after graduation married a former classmate from Caltech, becoming Rebecca Moesta Cowan.

In 1981, the couple moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where they lived for one year until they moved to Darmstadt, Germany, until 1987. In Germany Rebecca took graduate courses with Boston University and earned a Master of Science degree in Business Administration. During their stay in Germany she gave birth to her son, Jonathan, before moving back to the United States and settling in Livermore, California.

In 1989, Rebecca took a position at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a proof reader and copy editor. There she formed a science fiction club in which she met her future husband Kevin J. Anderson. She divorced her first husband in 1990 and married Anderson in 1991.

The couple started working together writing science fiction novels and to date has written two Titan A.E. young adult novels, two high-tech pop-up books and fourteen Star Wars novels, the Young Jedi Knights series. The couple owns and runs the company Wordfire, and Rebecca is currently working on several new projects, including copy editing her husband's works.

Reviews

[lafon حمزة نوفل · Rating 2 out of 5]

So of all three books, I only disliked this one. Yes i get that the trilogy is cliched, trite, and rather static, but for some reason I enjoyed the first two. This one had a cliche every paragraph, the characters "hooked up" right in the last 2 pages, and a whole host of other problems. So, like yeah, whatever.

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Despite this being the third book in the series, I couldn't help but grit my teeth at parts of this book, the writing was not as well done as the first two, it was more like the author was rushing to complete the story for a deadline, than writing for the shear enjoyment of it like with the other two books. In entirely too many places, I found myself baffled at the actions of the characters, and in more than one instance, the actions assumed to have taken place in the next chapter did not in fact actually seem to have taken place as written. Still a nice finish to an excellent series, and one I'd not mind visiting again should there be further adventures in this universe, only next time (if there is a next time) I hope the author takes more care with the storyline, and makes it more coherent.

[Jessie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well, I decided I couldn't just leave a series unfinished despite hating every book up to this point. I don't know why I bothered trying.

[Sebastien · Rating 3 out of 5]

Troisième et dernier livre de la série Crystal Doors.

Ce livre est de loin le meilleur de la série et je l'ai lu beaucoup plus facilement.

Pourquoi la note basse?

Ce livre est plein de plot holes, d'histoire qui finissent pas et de fait inexpliquer. En plus à la fin on a l'impression qu'il y aura une suite dans une autre trilogy qui suivra l'âges des lecteurs.

On peut espéré mais rien de prévu par l'auteur pour l'instant donc il faut ce contenter de ce livre qui ne rassasie pas et qui laisse sur notre faim.

Je ne m'attarderai pas sur ce livre, je le recommandes à des enfants âgés de plus de 8 ans avec un contrôle parental sur certaines scènes d'action.

Sinon un livre très correcte qui se lit bien mais qui ne réinvente pas la roue malheureusement.

[C.O. Bonham · Rating 4 out of 5]

In the thrilling conclusion to the crystal doors trilogy the five children of prophesy must travel to the flying city of Irrakesh to convince the sultan to let his son remain in Elantya. But event quickly escalate into an epic battle against Azric and his evil minions.

This series should be a movie. OK three movies.

[Andrea · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very immature. The writing was a little shallow but I had read the first two so I felt like I needed to know how the series ended.

[Sami · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing. You never get bored while reading this book. Some things are predictable but there are still some surprises. The best book in the trilogy.

[Debbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good ending to the trilogy. I hope that there will be more books about the characters. I liked this series.

[Armine · Rating 1 out of 5]

My classmate gave me this book 2 years ago....and I haven't even read half of it. I will probably read it again soon, if I have time to spare.

[Danielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed the series as a whole, though I've grown out of it's age range, so my interests fell out of favour with it, but I liked the book nonetheless.