An excellent continuation of the Runelord's saga! The moral choices faced by the characters is excellent, and really makes one think! Who among us could knowingly order men to their deaths? Moreso, who could order a 9-year-old girl to do the things Gaborn to do the things he asked of Averan to do? Or order a retreat from a battle, knowing that defenseless civilians would be slaughtered as a result?I like the way Gaborn's powers are still diminished. Originally his Earth King Powers basically cas...

a grand fantasy! full of complex quirky detailed work that makes Farland's worlds fascinating & memorable places to visit... and this book is no exception. book 3 continues a well-written, colorfully characterized and sensational adventure.

I read the first two books in this series about ten years ago. I wasn't overly impressed at the time and the rest of the series ended up on the eternal back burner. A decade later I've read far deeper into the genre and coming back to the series I have a new respect for Farland and the Runelords. Not only was I able to fall back into the world almost seamlessly despite my hiatus, but I really appreciate more what Farland has done with this series. It stands out against older and newer fantasy I'...

1. Endless info dumps. I wouldn't have a problem with this if it was book 1 or a bit of a reminder in book 2. By book three? Simple word padding at this point. 2. Gaborn is insufferable. And the endless loopholes to allow him to act while not directly taking a life is ridiculous. The hand and the hand that orders the action is one and the same. 3. Dues Ex Machina. Things that weren't an issue to Reavers in Book 2 are a sudden problem in Book 3. 4. Zero character or plot development in Book 3. If...

I enjoyed this installment even more than the second book.I liked the dichotomy of Raj Ahtan and his desire to help his people versus his absolute greed. I also enjoyed the little girl's lessons in being a wizard, and the twist at the end with yet another wizard.It made me want to go out and read the next book in the series right away so I can know what happens to these characters, and how they overcome the incredible odds that Dave has set up here.

This is the best book of the this series underrated series, at least so far. I give this book 3.5 stars and will round up to 4 stars. Too bad it's the last one my library has, so I may have to break down and get the 4th book as this one is very open ended.

The third entry of David Farland’s Runelords series opens on the second day in the month of leaves, beginning with a prologue where King Anders entertains guests in South Crowthen, and wants to kill Gaborn’s queen. Meanwhile, Gaborn and Raj Ahten are at each other’s throats, and Myrrima receives training as a sorceress. The Domains of Man diagram present in previous installment plays some role in the third book, with several battles occurring through the text. The enigmatic reavers also return a...

Man these stories keep escalating. It's really kind of impressive. From the story of a powerful invading lord to bugs from the depths of the Earth to dark magic, super powerful evil beings from another world, and perhaps even worse... Man there's a lot here. On top of that, we're digging a lot more into the various magic systems of this universe. Averan is (view spoiler)[Earth Wizardborn and can eat the brains of Reavers to learn from them (hide spoiler)], which gives us a much better idea of ho...

The third book in the saga of the Runelords is a beautifully woven and wonderfully written epic that delivers. The author continues exploring different aspects of the world he has created. I especially enjoy the economic and socio-political consequences of the different types of magic and the social organization that results from them.The characters are deeply crafted, have strong and credible motivations, a varied range of personalities, beliefs, gender, age,... this makes for a rich story and

I like the hints of new directions going on in this one. The different kinds of wizards, in particular. I can do without the walnuts, but the whole learning-depth about reavers, about fire, and about water seems very promising.Oh! And let's not forget about our fair observers who are so preoccupied with time! :)I say this is a promising series. Epic in the sense that it is epic fantasy, yes, and not as grandiose as some, but much bigger in a few ways than most. Many, many shadow worlds? I likey....

To start this books writing was an improvement from the 1st and 2nd books, but it still just doesn’t pull a 4 star rating out of me. I want to applaud whoever suggested the chapters be restructured, this was such a nice change from the first two books where chapters just ran into each other. The biggest change that I appreciated was that the author was no longer constantly repeating information to me over and over again. The 2nd book was full of repeating information about the magic system and i...

Good books find a muse and follow it. The muse may take many forms, a theme, a style, a character, or other. Whatever the form, if the book is true to its muse you can always respect the book, even if you don't necessarily like it.Sigh.As you've probably guessed, this third entry in the seven-part Runelord trilogy has lost its muse and wandered back into the well-worn ruts of high fantasy. The heart of the first book was moral choices about sacrificing people for power, made very concrete by the...

This book was better than the 2nd one. It still bothers me that it takes so freakin' long for everything to happen in such a short amount of time. It just seems a bit unrealistic to have the entire world change in the course of a week.(view spoiler)[However, I really enjoyed the development between Borenson and Myrrima. (And by the way, what the heck is Borenson's first name? Why does not even his wife call him by his first name?) It wasn't a cheesy love story (kind of like Gaborn's and Iome's r...

I didn't remember much from reading this book previously, but in this third book of the Runelords series, I am struck by how good a writer David Farland is. The characters are well-established at this point, but they never seem to act in order to further advance the plot only; they act as they should as established by the other books. Also, this book is breathlessly plotted, happening over the course of just a few days. But, due to Farland's system of attributes, this makes sense as men and hors...

I felt that Farland really got his sea legs under him with this 3rd installment of the Runelords series. The A story was everyone versus the Reavers, a giant centipede from hell-like army of creatures that weave a path of death and destruction in their wake. But you also had plenty of B stories and character development involving just about every other character with the major exception of our hero Gaborn who was pretty flat throughout the book especially compared to all the other characters s

4.5. Still really liking the series. Got the audiobook for this one. It's amazing how little time is span in especially this book for how much detail is put into every perspective and event. It's very well done in my opinion.

Farland continues his wild romp in the third installment of The Runelords; maybe he has a better editor, or maybe his is just getting better, but this had an improved pacing and if possible, even more action than the last two. We left the last volume after Gaborn and friends defeated the reaver hoard at Carris, despite the machinations of Raj. Gaborn, however, lost some of his earth power as Earth King, and can no longer Choose people, or warn them telepathically of danger...Farland has several

The Battle of Carris is over. The forces of Raj Ahten had come to conquer but the rising of the vast horde of Reavers soon makes mortal enemies become uneasy allies, for the Reavers do not simply want to vanquish, they want to destroy anything and everything human. Only through the power of the Earth King what could have been the fall of humanity becomes the hope of life. Now, with the horde defeated, the plan to end their threat forever soon is put into play. But the success or failure of that

This book clears the bad taste the previous one, Brotherhood of the Wolf, left in my mouth. It actually manages to avoid the curse of epic almost entirely: when it seems the story will begin to drag, the narrative starts its climb towards the climax.Another staple of this series is back: caring characters that become important to the reader so quickly that the heart aches when something bad happens to them. Not that this is a tragic story, it's very uplifting as a matter of fact, but the tragic

With WIZARDBORN, the Runelords series slows down a bit. Loosing some of the epic feel, this book takes place over only two days (where the previous two books covered four days each). I think this is mostly the unfortunate consequence of having too many distinct plot threads, all experiencing major changes at the same time. While I have enjoyed each of them, I feel like Farland has overreached a bit in trying to make this story bigger than it should be. With so much focus on Averan's development