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Alan Campbell
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Publisher | Tor | ||
ISBN | 978-033044478 | ||
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Ann
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Synopsis
The gates to Hell have been opened, releasing unnatural creatures and threatening to turn the world into a killing field. In the middle, caught between warring gods and fallen angels, humanity finds itself pushed to the brink of extinction. Its only hope is the most unlikely of heroes ...Former assassin Rachel Hael has rejoined the blood-magician Mina Greene and her devious little dog Basilis on one last desperate mission to save the world from the grip of Hell. Carried in the jaw of a debased angel, they rush to the final defensive stronghold of the god of clocks - pursued all the while by the twelve arconites, the great iron-and-bone automatons controlled by King Menoa, the lord of the maze. But the strange fortress of the god of clocks is unlike anything they could ever have expected. And now old enemies and new allies join in a battle whose outcome could end them all...
Review
In this, the last volume of the trilogy, there is finally a mention of sunlight ! Dill battles the arconites and all becomes more or less resolved.
I'm somewhat ashamed to admit that by this time I was skipping quite a lot, and never being able to quite get to grips with time travel, felt that this way of solving the conflict was a bit of a cop out.
There are some properly fantastic concepts and attractive minor characters presented here and some really good dialogue but overall I felt that the sketchiness of our knowledge of the structure of this world and its inhabitants detracts from involvement and therefore interest. Anything at all can happen and we remain outside, just going along for the ride marveling at the imagination but careless of the outcome.
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