- Paperback: 635 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Australia (30 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140276823
- ISBN-13: 978-0140276824
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,130,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An extended fantasy sequence has always to deliver an impressive pay-off; The Way Between the Worlds is the fourth and final volume of Ian Irvine's "The View From the Mirror" and brings the quartet to a convolutedly triumphant finale. By now, Irvine has entirely involved our sympathies with the feckless, untrustworthy chronicler Llian and the heroic Karan, who loves him, and, to a lesser degree, to the profoundly morally ambiguous Magraith, whose loyalties have been so endlessly warped and abused by various key magical players in this struggle for the artefacts that will re-open the way through the dangers of the void to the home-worlds they lost. Much of the novel has always had to do with Llian's attempts to uncover precisely what occurred when the path between worlds was closed centuries earlier; Irvine plays fair, giving us some answers and making the sequence's resolution depend on those answers. For someone whose fiction plays so thoroughly with ethically grey areas, Irvine is also admirable in his preparedness to sort out endings that feel right; this is a book in which heroes and villains alike get a part of what they want, but a sort of justice as well. Irvine has brought both a lively intelligence and a keen moral sense to the heroics and spell-play of the modern fantasy novel. --Roz Kaveney
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'Irvine has built a history and wonderful culture for his vivid world. His first novel vibrates with originality' THE WEST AUSTRALIAN 'The complex cultures, detailed geography, and the palpable weight of history provide a solid background to an intense story that ... becomes increasingly compelling. This stands out as a worldbuilding labour of love with some truly original touches' LOCUS
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The construct, a menace that warped even the light around it, slowly revolved above the decapitated tower of Carcharon. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I'm not really a SF fan but these books are just so gripping. Irvine has created a truly great masterpiece, and even though I read it over a year ago, I still remember the book fondly. Most of all, the characters. I find myself reminiscing and musing over Karan and Llian from time to time even now. I guess the relationship Irvine created between the reader and his characters is so great it still holds. The plot, the landscape, the writing were all fantastic, but at the top of my list were the unique characters which will stay with me for a very long time indeed. It's an absolutely must read for a fan of any genre and I can only say that if you don't read this, it's your loss.
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A thrilling conclusion to the "A View From the Mirror" quartet.
Highly recommended along with the following quartet - "The Well of Echoes"
Highly recommended along with the following quartet - "The Well of Echoes"
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This is the fourth and final volume of The View from the Mirror tetralogy (after A Shadow on the Glass, The Tower on the Rift and Dark Is the Moon).
It's hythe, mid-winter's day, in Carcharon Tower, and a dark moon is rising. In exchange for Llian's life and freedom, Rulke has convinced Karan to betray her people and help him open the Way between the Worlds.
In the process, a horde of monsters is unleashed from the void, and while Rulke the Great Betrayer is off exploring, with Karan's mind accompanying him in a trance, her defenseless body is suddenly attacked by deadly Lorrsk and Thranx. But taking advantage of the confusion, she barely manages to escape, to find herself in the cold, snowy mountains again, reminding her of her ordeal of the year before.
In this volume, Rulke wants to save his people, the last hundred or so remaining Charon, from extinction, Faelamor wants to lead her people the Faellem back to Tallallame, Mendark wants to become the most famous magister on Santhenar. And all are ready to sacrifice everything to achieve their goal. Karan just wants to go home and rest.
On the one hand, I was a bit disappointed by the sudden appearance of grotesque monsters which, in my opinion, serve no real purpose and weaken the plot. On the other hand, Mendark, Yggur, Rulke, Faelamor and Shand finally start to show the various facets of their personalities, to become multidimentional, but to such an extent that in the end it's all quite complicated and it's hard to make up one's mind as to whom you want to see win the battle. Hopefully, to glue it all together, there's a whole cast of endearing characters such as Pender, Thallia, Lilis and Jevi, Maigraith Karan and Llian. They're the ones that make you read on.
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A great Masterpiece
I have read all the view from the mirror books, and nearly on the third book again, for the third time. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2004
Ian Irvine has created a masterpiece!!
Having now read all four i would like to cast an overall view as all the books are written well they deserve equal credit!! Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2001
Good as always, if not better!
As good as the last 3, in fact, better, read it cover to cover the seond it came through the door today.. fantastic - what to read now?! Read more
Published on 7 Dec 2001
worth waiting for!
I've had to wait a year for the final volume of this amazing sequence, and it was so worth it! I was left with so many questions unanswered at the end of 'Dark is the moon' that... Read more
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