The Infinity Gate (Darkglass Mountain #3)

by Sara Douglass

Overview

Tencendor is no more. The land is gone.But a few SunSoars still remain.And a new foe walks the world.

Ishbel Brunelle, priestess of the Serpent Coil, and Maximilian, the Lord of Elcho Falling, have raised the magic of Elcho Falling, and found new allies against the darkness in the mysterious Lealfast. And more crucially still, Axis SunSoar, former god and current hero, has rediscovered the magical Star Dance and revived hislegendary Strike Force to push back the evil hordes commanded by the DarkGlass Mountain.

But their enemy grows stronger through blood and betrayal, the Lealfast have their own agenda, and when unexpected treachery threatens, Axis SunSoar must face a darkness greater than any he has ever known.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780060882204
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	07/26/2011
Series:	Darkglass Mountain Series , #3
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Sara Douglass was born in Adelaide but moved to Hobart in later life to write full-time. Three of her books won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy and many were shortlisted. She published nineteen books of epic and historical fantasy before her death in 2011.

Editorial Reviews

Teaming with cosmic plots, strange races, magic, and high adventure, The Serpent Bride is epic fantasy that borrows from the conventions of tragedy and romance.

The Age (Australia)

The Serpent Bride, Book One, is a much longed for and a wholly triumphant return to the bestselling Axis trilogy.

The Sunday Tasmanian (Australia)

The ultimate for fans of Sara Douglass.

The Advocate

Sara Douglass has the breadth of vision necessary to create sweeping epics and the storyteller’s gift that makes readers love her.

Locus

Detailed, elegant prose.

The Cairns Post (Australia)

The ultimate for fans of Sara Douglass. . . . Douglass definitely has a gift for storytelling, and The Serpent Bride is eminently readable, with dramatic twists and turns all over the place.

Associated Press Staff

Prolific doesn’t even begin to describe fantasy author Sara Douglass. . . . [The Serpent Bride is] teaming with cosmic plots, strange races, magic and high adventure.

The Age (Melbourne

Storytelling at its best, with fast-paced action, gritty realism, powerful characters, magic and romance.

Romantic Times BOOKclub on The Wayfarer Redemption

Sara Douglass has the breadth of vision necessary to create sweeping epics and the storyteller’s gift that makes readers love her.

Locus on The Wayfarer Redemption

The twists, revelations and foreshadowings keep you turning pages.

SFX (UK) on The Axis Trilogy

Addictively readable ... a very big, very entertaining book.

The Age on The Troy Game

Absorbing. Those who like their battles bloody and realistic will get their desire, but here also are moments of great tenderness.

Starburst on The Axis Trilogy

"Prolific doesn’t even begin to describe fantasy author Sara Douglass. . . . [The Serpent Bride is] teaming with cosmic plots, strange races, magic and high adventure."

The Age (Melbourne))

"Prolific doesn’t even begin to describe fantasy author Sara Douglass. . . . [The Serpent Bride is] teaming with cosmic plots, strange races, magic and high adventure."

The Age (Melbourne)

The ultimate for fans of Sara Douglass. . . . Douglass definitely has a gift for storytelling, and The Serpent Bride is eminently readable, with dramatic twists and turns all over the place.

Associated Press

Storytelling at its best, with fast-paced action, gritty realism, powerful characters, magic and romance.

Romantic Times

Completing Douglass' DarkGlass Mountain Trilogy (after 2009's The Twisted Citadel), this sweeping saga focuses on the monumental battles that Icarii leader Axis SunSoar wages to defend the city of Elcho Falling against the Lealfast, winged minions of an evil god called The One. Meanwhile, Maxel and Ishbel, lord and lady of Elcho Falling, begin a lonely quest to demolish DarkGlass Mountain and destroy The One. Nothing in this minutely detailed narrative turns out quite as it originally seems. Intrigue, magic, and betrayals abound throughout multiple storylines staffed by a mind-numbingly large cast of characters. Like most Tolkienesque world-builders, Douglass revels in making her actors do, but neglects to allow them to convincingly be. Though often uneven, this final installment of familiar good-versus-evil warfare allows plenty of vicarious thrills along its tortuous way. (Jun.)

Publishers Weekly

Absorbing. Those who like their battles bloody and realistic will get their desire, but here also are moments of great tenderness.

Starburst

Storytelling at its best, with fast-paced action, gritty realism, powerful characters, magic and romance.

Romantic Times BOOKclub

Addictively readable ... a very big, very entertaining book.

The Age

The twists, revelations and foreshadowings keep you turning pages.

SFX (UK)