Irrwege

The Death Gate Cycle #6

by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Haplo, targeted for death by two assassins, and Alfred enter the terrifying Labyrinth, a prison maze guarded by fearsome creatures. Meanwhile, the Lord of the Nexus raises an army from the dead to attack the Tytans.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dragons, Science Fiction

Paperback

First published November 1, 1993

About the author

Margaret Edith Weis is an American fantasy and science fiction author of dozens of novels and short stories. At TSR, Inc., she teamed with Tracy Hickman to create the Dragonlance role-playing game (RPG) world. She is founding CEO and owner of Sovereign Press, Inc and Margaret Weis Productions, licensing several popular television and movie franchises to make RPG series in addition to their own.
In 1999, Pyramid magazine named Weis one of The Millennium's Most Influential Persons, saying she and Hickman are "basically responsible for the entire gaming fiction genre". In 2002, she was inducted into the Origins Hall of Fame in part for Dragonlance.

Reviews

[Tom Quinn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Is it the Sunk Cost Fallacy? Is it Stockholm Syndrome? Or is it a genuine return to form for this series and its prolific author team? Whatever the case, I'm here telling you that Book 6 of 7 is where it's at. Stick with the series long enough as it goes through some awful course corrections and it does eventually right itself. I forgive all the wrongs of Books 2 through 5 because this at last rekindles all the best bits from the first one. Which, remember, is really good. I swear.

4 stars. Fantasy gold, but you have to mine a long long time to get to it.

[Jim C · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is part of a series and I recommend reading them in order. This is the penultimate book for this series and it seems like every character is beginning to make their move. We learn about Lord Xar, the snake serpents reveal their intentions to everyone while Haplo and Alfred are forced into the labryinth.

I have to go against other reviewers and say this one was my least favorite. It seems like a lot of reviewers consider this one terrific. The problem for me was that it did not capture me right away like other books in this series has done. The first half of this book was a lot of exposition. It was needed to get to the finale but I was never enthralled by it. It took over a hundred pages to even check in with Haplo and the whole time I was wondering what was going on with him. The second half saved this book as we finally enter the labyrinth and action ensues. The finale was terrific and that cliffhanger! I contemplated of jumping right into the next book because of that cliffhanger.

I liked this book but it was no where close to being my favorite. The balance of the book was off for me at the beginning and the humor was a miss for me too. I like the character Zinfab but the jokes about James Bond irked me in this book and the authors continued using this gag over and over. I am interested in how it all plays out and that is because of the second half of the book. Once you get to the second half this book becomes entertaining.

[Katinki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Copied from Dragon Wing. Review is for entire series.

Re-read

The Deathgate Cycle is one of my favorite series ever. Everything about it - all 7 books - are just... high fantasy perfection.

- The world (or rather universe) is amazingly unique, stunning in set up and description, and terrifically told.
- The magic and its use is top notch. It's one of few series that really go into HOW the magic of the world works.
- The characters are all highly memorable, including "Dog", the secondaries, the villains, the monsters, etc. And the primary protagonist, Haplo, is one of my favorites ever. Maybe my very favorite. He's everything I'd ever want in a protag - strong yet kind, "good", complex, and so easy to get behind and pull for. He's a bad ass, too.
- And the plot is perfect and perfectly executed.

Everything about this series is just... yeah. I can honestly think of no negatives. Unless to say that I'd like another 7 books. I'll just settle for re-reading, which it handles just fine. This book was just as good today as the first time I read way back in like... idk... 1991 [ETA: probably like 1993 for ItL] or so.

You won't get a much higher recommendation out of me than this.

[[Name Redacted] · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a shame one of the darkest, most exciting entries in the series has some of the ugliest, brightest and silliest cover art.

This book benefits from further examinations of the history of the Patryn/Sartan conflict as well as the nature of Patryn magic (which is actually a sort of quantum probability manipulation -- something I did not recognize when I read these as a boy). Also the conflict between the Lazars and the truly living beings is wonderfully disturbing.

[MMF · Rating 3 out of 5]

And this is, unfortunately, where the DGS starts to come apart a bit. It's not unreadable, and it still has some enjoyable and some solid stuff... but it reaches that point where many long series reach where they sort of forget what happened before and start contradicting themselves. Also, where some of the very good subtle and complex characters and concepts start to be flattened out –– to make the task of driving a very complicated story in a solid direction easier, I guess, and the craftsmanship here was never top-notch, but the concepts really were, so I've got to complain about this stuff.

First off, though, the things that do work: Alfred's character arc is still going. And as small as this is, the revelations about Zifnab are done well. And... clumsy side romantic elements aside, Aleatha's arc is good too.

As Xar comes to the forefront, he gets... more disappointing. Xar was set up as Haplo's mentor, and the leader of all the Patryns. He's single-minded and ruthless, but he geniunely and passionately cares about his people. He repeatedly risks his life returning to the Labyrinth to save them. When Haplo begins to have doubts, Xar tortures him; when he thinks Haplo has betrayed him, Xar breaks down weeping with real grief. He's a deeply flawed man and ultimately an antagnoist, but he's also a LEGEND, as well as a sympathetic father-figure.

Xar in this book a cackling cartoon villain, both evil and stupid. It's frankly embarrassing. The lengths he goes to to continue believing in Sang-drax including after the latter steals Xar's ship and leaves him stranded are absurd. This is a man who tore Haplo, whom he loved as a son, down to his component parts because he suspected him of withholding information. And no, Haplo's reasons for Xar's behavior (that he knows Sang-drax is evil but is pretending he is controlling him??) make no sense. Again, Xar ripped Haplo apart for much less. He KNOWS when he's in control. He frankly SHOULD be in better control. I have no idea why Sang-drax even bothers betraying him, because Xar's actual desire for chaos, blood and revenge should do well enough on its own. Instead, Xar is left to cartoonishly fail at outsmarting a bunch of mensch kiddies like Gargamel and some Smurfs. Just. Awful.

The business with Orla seems to have been done just to get her out of the way and reduce the number of active characters, which is admirable, but what actually transpires makes less sense the more I think about it. The last we saw, Orla finally defied her controlling husband and stood up for her beliefs, ... and then she just sort of shrugs and does a 180. Lame.

I also have problems with Marit's character, and with the characterization of Patryns and their society in general. At once point, Marit and Haplo have an exchange to the tune of "Patryns don't love, they only hate, [but Haplo has learned about love through his experiences]." This directly contradicts a whole lot of evidence in previous books, including ALFRED's own words. Patryns have a fierce love and loyalty to their people and their kin. Haplo's parents died to save him. Xar obviously loves Haplo as a treasured son. Squatter tribes take in the children of other Patryns and raise them. They have "joining" ceremonies where two people with a deep bond (romantic or otherwise) pledge themselves to one another. Patryns love just as fiercely as they hate.

Being solitary, callous and determined to focus only on hate were characteristics of HAPLO in particular, not of every Patryn. Recall that in his memories Marit left him because he was cold and callous – Marit wanted to help a bunch of other people, whereas Haplo was content to let them die. It makes no sense that Marit is now the one who was always cold and callous, and that she remembers Haplo as being caring and kind.

And to go on about Patryns, nothing about the Labyrinth makes sense any more. Vasu's city makes no bloody sense and neither does he. If the elected leader of a city of Patryns at the very beginning of the Labyrinth is half-Sartan, and his anscestors were always treated well and respected as he claims, how does it make any sense that every other Patryn has been raised to hate all Sartan?

Furthermore, why has the Labyrinth allowed the construction of a city of all things right in the middle of it? It's supposed ot be a conscious entity whose purpose was to reform Patryn by forcing them through a series of trials (warped into "torture the Patryn with a bunch of murder machines"). It should've dropped a whole herd of dragons right on the city. It shouldn't take Sang-drax doing anything to "convince" the various murder machines to kill Patryn there, for goshsakes.

FURTHERmore, how on earth would Vasu and his people have heard of Xar? There are GENERATIONS of distance between the center and the Final Gate, and from what we know the majority of Patryns are trying to move towards the latter, away from the former, in small and scattered nomadic groups. Anyone who has met Xar since he escaped has presumably been either rescued or died; I can't imagine a whole lot of people turned around to head back the other way and send their grandchildren to inform the center of the dang place about him. Not even Haplo, who was born within twenty years or so of the Final Gate, seems to know anything about Xar before meeting him. And nobody anywhere seems to have heard of Vasu's city, including Haplo and Xar. Sang-drax just knows about it because it's convenient that way?

Last furthermore, Sang-drax's grand master plan to seal the Final Gate is f***ing stupid. His goals are – nay, he is supposed to be the manifestation of chaos and violence – so why would he intentionally want to limit the amount of scarred, hate-filled people like Xar and Haplo spilling out into the larger world? Besides, WHO WILL KNOW? The only ones who will even know the Final Gate is closed are the ones already outside, or those who reach it. And will probably just die upon finding it shut. I'm rambling and getting a headache.

It's probably unfair of me to go on about this in a series which, as I've noted, was never about being highbrow literature; but what I really love about Death's Gate is the worlds, and the shades of gray – characters who overestimate themselves, like the Sartan; who sin by omission, like Alfred; who get what they want and find it lacking, like Jarre. The collapse of that promise into something so much simpler and more manageable is just a disappointment.

[Jorge Gálvez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un libro que resulta decepcionante, ya que no cumple con lo que el título promete, o bueno cumple pero a medias.

Dejo video donde hablo más a detalle sobre este libro:
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[Aaron · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fitting penultimate volume, setting us up for the final confrontation in Book 7. We start to leave the mensch worlds behind (except for too much time spent with the elves, humans, and dwarves of Pryan...not really a favorite group of characters of mine) and focus on Haplo, Alfred, and the newly-introduced Marit as they work to thwart the dragon-snakes. Also, there's plenty more of Hugh the Hand (who is as cool and tough as The Gunslinger, the Man with No Name, and Jason Bourne). He's become one of my favorite fictional characters after re-reading these books.

There are a couple of points that detract from the story. For one, I've always wondered why Alfred was able to bring Hugh back to life without any of the issues discussed in Fire Sea (he's not a lazar with an echoing voice, or a regular corpse who's mindless). There's no explanation how this could be, but I think we can surmise that as the Serpent Mage, Alfred as powers far beyond those of other Sartan. The second is more of a wish than an issue, but I thought that the lazar on Abarrach were defeated too easily. A simple sentence is all that is used to explain their defeat. Still, I think this serves to describe how powerful Xar is compared to everyone else.

I'll be very sorry when I close the cover on the last book, but this is a series that I will come back to someday. I do that with very few books, but this is one of the best.

[Matthew · Rating 5 out of 5]

You know, whenever I'm lucky enough to find a reasonably literate person who has read some fantasy novels, I'm always surprised by the fact that - as far as I can recall - none of them have read The Death Gate Cycle. Granted, I had some holdover nostalgia from the Dragonlance Chronicles for Weis and Hickman, and so I probably had more cause to read them than most, but, even solely on their own merits, these are really excellent books. They're filled with interesting and nuanced characters - Hugh the Hand is still one of my favorite characters ever - and the plotlines are expertly interwoven. The real mastery, though, is in the novels' 5 distinct - geographically, sociologically, politically, ethnically - worlds.

People who enjoyed Harry Potter or Tolkein should give these books a shot.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

Bit slow of a start, and it took far too long to actually get "into the labyrinth", but I really liked it once we got there. It was nice to meet up with Alfred again - I missed him in the last book.

We also spent a lot of time with Xar in this one and, I gotta say, with however annoying I found Haplo's sense of superiority and stubbornness in the past, Xar is just so much worse. So far Xar has yet to have much in the way of redeeming qualities, where Haplo always seemed to have a few, even at his most annoying.

Marit also bugged me, but at least she came around, in the end.


I mostly rated up for this one, though, because of that ending. The best ending of the series, so far, and definitely whets my appetite to jump into the next, and final, book.

[Heidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book 6 picks up just after book 5 left off: the people of Arianus are working through centuries-old prejudices to bring their world together, Xar is looking for The Chamber of the Damned in order to gain power to fulfill his dream of world domination, and Haplo and Alfred have realized that they can't trust their respective leaders and must work together to defeat the evil threatening their worlds. A new main character is introduced (rather late in the series, I thought): Marit, Haplo's former lover and now his would-be assassin. I'm glad Bane is gone; I never liked that kid.

This series is much more character-driven than action-driven, and in this book we see the main characters, Haplo and Alfred, come to terms with who they are. The time for questioning and choosing loyalties is basically over, and now they have to learn to live with their choices. I loved seeing Haplo finally let his guard down and embrace Alfred as a friend, and I also loved seeing Alfred quit being so afraid of his own power.

Marit is an interesting character--it's too bad she's coming into the story so late. She's rather superfluous to the plot, just another example of a Patryn making decisions that go against Xar's will. She could have been a strong character throughout the story.

[Jon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this series. Let me be clear, I almost gave up on it a couple times.. There was one or two books that let me down in my opinion, even if they explained much needed plot holes. This one has officially revitalized my hope in this series and I stare down the final book with needed anticipation.

The way that story flowed, kept me entirely on my toes the whole time and addressed some much needed appearances of old characters that felt left in the dirt. We journeyed briefly to all the worlds in differing chapters of this book, and they were all impacted because of it. The way Haplo himself has transitioned also keeps me enthralled, I feel as though he's gone from a child, to finally adopting his responsibility and blooming into an adult.

[Pamela · Rating 5 out of 5]

Totally vested in these characters, so must go on with the final book of the series.

[Jared Delcamp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Welcome to Thunderdome, Sang Drax.

[Belinda Vlasbaard · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars- Dutch hardcover

I enjoyed this book in the series because it let me see inside Haplo more than any of the others. And so I liked all books before this one because their was a character and world as centerpoint in each book.

This is the book where real changes were happening to Harpo...where he finally was letting go of his hatred of the dreaded Sartan enemy that had forced his people into the Labyrinth.

Here he found Sartan AND Patryns living and fighting the Labyrinth together, a startling revelation for Haplo and me both!

Here gentle, sweet, bumbling Alfred found courage, letting go of the guilt that had plagued him since he had awoken from his deep sleep.

Here, too, we meet up again with the giant serpents that saw a real opportunity in closing off and trapping everyone within the Labyrinth, forever feeding on the fear, hatred and hopeless that the Labyrinth pounded into its victims.

Xar, Haplo's mentor and "father", had already been convinced by lies that Haplo was a trader which was just what the serpents wanted...a divided people meant a weakened army and an easier foe to conquer on the battlefield. From here on the book focuses on the war with the serpents and Xar's belated realization that he has been fooled.

Just one more book in this series with hopefully, for every character a good ending.

[Koen Crolla · Rating 2 out of 5]

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Aimless, pointless. Haplo and a few other characters do in fact make it "into the Labyrinth", but not until we're a good 80% through the book, and the preceding pages aren't actually spent working towards that goal so much as just passing time. Most of the surviving side characters from the previous books have their own chapters going on, but it's not clear why—they're not really doing anything either, beyond maybe recapping parts of the plot of their respective books in dialogue to nobody's particular benefit. Haplo's ex shows up as a main character (once they're in the Labyrinth it turns out Haplo was going there to look for their daughter all along), but when she starts out hating him (for reasons) and then at the end tells him she loves him (for no reason that I can see), it doesn't feel like character development so much as just mechanically going through genre-enforced motions.
This book and the previous one could have been the first fifty or so pages of the next one and the series would still be too long by about two books.

[Elessar · Rating 3 out of 5]

3/5

Este penúltimo libro de la heptalogía deja en mí un sabor agridulce, un poco alejado del agradable regusto del anterior. La enorme cantidad de personajes presentados a lo largo de todos los libros obliga a ir cerrando sus correspondientes tramas, al estar cerca la conclusión de la historia. Tal tarea es subsanada de manera satisfactoria en ocasiones, pero apresurada en otras. Los capítulos protagonizados por los personajes del segundo libro —el peor de todos— aburren y entorpecen en la creación de un ambiente serio. El laberinto es al fin presentado al lector, con elementos muy interesantes pero que deberían haberse desarrollado más. El final cada vez parece estar más claro, algo que era difícil de conjeturar en las entregas previas.

[Leah Delcamp · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s all happening. Love the character developments and several long-time-coming satisfying moments.

[Maurine Tritch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Into the Labyrinth is a bit uneven. It introduces Marit, Haplo's long lost love, and I both didn't like her and didn't think she was necessary. It just seemed a little too pat that of all the thousands of Patryns in the world, she would have ended up in the Nexus, highly esteemed by Xar, and Haplo didn't know. She is fanatically devoted as Haplo was at the beginning, and that heart-wrenching realization of hard truths in place of easy belief is a journey that we just took with Haplo during the span of five books. I didn't feel any need to start over with this interloper.

We got Alfred back, but the woman who left her husband to share Alfred's incarceration in the labyrinth committed suicide in the interim without us ever seeing her again? It didn't make any sense from where we left her in Serpent Mage, and only a slight stab at a lame explanation was given. Her name also changed from Orla to Orlah, which bothered me immensely. I mentioned in the review of Elven Star that Pryan had a lot more loose ends and unanswered questions then most worlds and this was highlighted here. We return to the band of unlikable protagonists from Elven Star (though it is nice to see familiar faces) and find that the extras that went with them have been conveniently disposed of. The original members are penned up in a city by a band of killer, giant robots--called Tytens-- whom they fled from originally. They are the last people on their world, yet the romantic pairings are all weirdly between elves and humans which works from a dramatic story sense but has no practical value as--the reader is told emphatically--these liaisons cannot result in children (but Sartan and Patryn can? This becomes an issue later and is never addressed). Then, they discover a way to communicate with another city which is merrily thriving and they are told to let the Tytens in. Where did this other city come from? And how long have they had their robots working correctly, because a big deal in the series is made when the machine on Arianus turns on, and after that Pryan's suns start to transmit light to other worlds. If it's already happening, why is it important that this group of people we're following do it? Anyway, what prompted the Tytens show up at all? The Sartan turned them out centuries ago. Where were they in the meantime? Why did they suddenly decide to go on a rampage and start murdering civilizations? None of this is ever answered. And the existence of the other city with all the answers seems waaaay too much of a stretch given what we already have been told. Xar is trapped there with them for awhile and has to deal with the other races--and they with him--which is kind of fun to watch, but doesn't really stretch either party the way it should. And ultimately fizzles into a deux ex machina...which, as a point in favor, is duly noted in the story.

The book shines when we finally get to go into the Labyrinth. Which is cool and we've never been. Surprises crop up along the way. There are some moving Haplo and Alfred moments, though they are a little muted now that Haplo is no longer fighting their bond. A very interesting weapon with a neat back story is introduced.

[Paola · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't like to meet Pyan's characters again, I'd have preferred to go to Chelestra. I think the first half of the book was a bit useless, I didn't need to read about their arguments.
Finally, in the second half we meet Alfred again and we go to the Labirint!

[kingshearte · Rating 2 out of 5]

Six down, one to go, and frankly, at this point, I just want it to be over. Parts of this book were really good. I enjoyed the parts when they were in the Labyrinth. There, there was action, a certain degree of intrigue, and a general sense of unpredictability. It brings out certain things about certain characters that they might have been able to keep hidden in less strenuous settings, too, which was kinda cool.

Unfortunately, that still left the first half of the book, which I basically don't even remember, if that gives you a clue, and the chapters between the ones in the Labyrinth. Those were set back on Pryan, which remains my least favourite world. It's like something about that world just sucks the interest out of absolutely everything that touches it. Four of the five characters there are completely lifeless and tiresome, and the fifth? Well, he almost gets something almost interesting going, but then... Let's just say he doesn't. Zifnab, of course, is back, and is just as much of a blithering, annoying idiot as ever. I think I sighed audibly every time I turned the page to a new chapter to see that we'd bounced back to the Realm of Zzzzzzzzzzzzz...

I have slightly higher hopes for the last book. The reason for this is that I've observed that while Weis & Hickman are capable of writing decent beginnings, and there are some good endings throughout, their middles have been consistently weak. Logic therefore suggests that this last book, as the ending to their series, has the potential to be half-decent. Although I'm sure it will also contain many very long, drawn out, and dull parts.

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Zifnab.

"Bless you." The sneeze joke.

Zifnab is a recurring, enigmatic character, whose fate is partly bared in this book.

Woven into all the seriousness of racism, power-struggles, revenge, lost children, evil serpents, walking dead, unrequited love, believe it or not, is a lovely sense of humor and a flair for both tragedy and drama. Plenty of death, as many good laughs – if you see them.

The tragedy of Zifnab is immense, and those few moments when the reader gets a glimpse at his true self (are we ever really sure though?) go straight for the jugular. I’ve laughed out loud a few times too, which often had to do with Zifnab/dragon interaction or the dog (seriously, he has a chapter… can’t be helped).

Interestingly, Marit has already joined the story. She was Haplo's mate in the Labyrinth, the prison designed to keep Patryns in check, to break and re-educate them into something the Sartans could control. Usually, Patryns spend their life, escaping from this prison and dying in the process.

Xar was the first to escape, and the only one to return out of his own free will, to help his people. (One redeeming quality at least.) Anyone else dared not return. And then there's this book titled "Into the Labyrinth". Imagine a war victim, having to return to the war he fought so hard to escape from. That's what Haplo has to do, along with Marit, though at this stage they're far from friends.

We finally learn more about the Patryns still stuck in this horrible, magical prison, and we follow these unfortunate souls, who know they have to return to the worst possible place, because, well, of course, because the fate of the world(s) is at stake.

[Milo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yeah, I think my preference for the series went down a star. It got better for a second there, but this one was like the first few. Once again, the abundant detail was maddening. When it takes about 2/3 of a book entitled "Into the Labyrinth" to actually, you know, get into the bloody labyrinth...that's an indication of a wee bit too much fat. Or a need to change the title.

All kidding aside, by the time they got into the labyrinth, I pretty much stopped caring. I even found myself skimming (to use the term lightly) the last several chapters, not really interested in this apparently be-all and end-all of mythical, magical, beast wars.

Does it matter who dies and who doesn't? I've figured out the pattern by this point. If they die, they were an unimportant character; total filler. And if they happened to be important, they find a way to come back to life.

[Geoff Battle · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although the pace picks up in the latter half of Labyrinth, there is no disguising the languishing pace of the first half and the absence of any noteworthy scenes. Labyrinth is setting the stage for the final conflict, drawing together a fellowship, with the usual traitor within, and actually creates some worthy tension as a result. Distracting from that is Fizban, a plot mechanic so absurd that it immediately dissolves any engagement with the story. Why the James Bond gags? It's high fantasy, not comedy and it's strikingly out of place. The final stage is worth fighting to though and at that point the lengthy build-up does pay dividends and ensures that readers will be yearning for resolution in the final chapter to follow.

[Anne Mey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ce tome ! rempli d'action, de révélations et d'avancement dans l'histoire générale c'était vraiment génial. On reprend les même persos mais cette fois on sent que la tension monte, que tous les problèmes commencent à aller vers leur résolution. Rien que d'avoir Haplo et Alfred se retrouver ça fait mon bonheur. J'ai bien aimé l'alternance des chapitres vers la fin avec deux histoires qui ont une belle montée en suspense. On voit bien l'évolution des personnages par rapport au début de l'histoire et ça c'est très intéressant et satisfaisant en tant que lectrice. J'ai hâte de lire la suite !

[Joshua · Rating 4 out of 5]

Started this series back in high school on the recommendation of friends into table top RPGs.
After all these years, it still holds up as a good story. Cool characters that experience significant growth and unique fantasy worlds.
Not sure how I feel about characters actually going to the Labyrinth. The shadowy unknown nature of it was part of what made it so terrifying in previous books. Having the characters go there does play an important role in the plot and character development and even raising questions that help advance the themes.

[Ignacio Senao f · Rating 4 out of 5]

De manera coral, la historia se divide en 2 partes. En la que el señor del Nexo busca la séptima puerta y su paralele en la que Haplo y compañía que aumenta poco a poco por distintas causas llegan a un destino jugoso para otros.

EL mejor a falta de uno. Con un personaje que se hace llamar Bond, James Bond. Que es un viejo entrañable e siniestro. Una parte bastante extensa que me recuerdo al manga “Ataques de titanes”. Acabando con trama abierta.

[Maria del Mar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Penúltimo libro de esta saga, que va mejorando a medida que avanzas. Te mantiene en vilo durante toda la lectura, y por fin te responde algunas de las preguntas del inicio. Por fin conocemos el temido laberinto. Tenemos saltos de un mundo a otro, narrado con bastante precisión que permite seguir el hilo en todo momento. En este libro se aprecia más claramente la evolución de los personajes. Por ahora el mejor libro de toda la saga

[Arminion · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is nothing much I can say that I haven't said already about this series: it's awesome and it just keeps getting better!
There are new and old characters, new and old locations, everything is coming together, the pieces of the puzzle are slowly unraveling and the plot is thickening. This has been one of the most satisfying fantasy novels I have ever read. If you still haven't started reading this, you should. I can't wait for the last one!

[Kaotic · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a cliffhanger!!!

There is just so much that happens in each volume that by the end of the book you are amazed by how far you've come and these are so wonderfully written.

It's amazing seeing how the characters change and evolve through he series, and seeing how my feelings for them have changed as well. A character thought at the beginning to be a hero has turned into a maniacal villain, and yet I understand how he came to this place.

But I just gotta say, I love Zifnab.

[Stephanie Carr · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are such fast reads really. I took a break to focus on Count of Monte Cristo and came back to this, started over, and whizzed right through like it was nothing. This one brings back the comedy from the second book because, well, it brings back those characters for some fun and adventure.

The stuff with the labyrinth is intense. Character development for not only Haplo but Alfred now too. Wonderful stuff.

Plus there's cliffhangers at the end like agh!