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God of Clocks (Deepgate Codex Trilogy 3) (Hardcover)

by Alan Campbell (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 500 pages
  • Publisher: Tor (3 Jul 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1405090375
  • ISBN-13: 978-1405090377
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 29,704 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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`A theological fantasy with echoes of Gormenghast is both spellbinding and literary.'
--Scotland on Sunday

'Fantasy excels at alternative theologies, and Campbell's pantheon is vividly imagined.'
--Scotland On Sunday

`Comparisons with Mervyn Peake (author of Gormenghast) are certainly justified, but Campbell brings a contemporary twist to a Peake-style gothic world - it's certainly something new, strange and compelling. '
--Civilian Reader


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'A bombastic, action-packed follow up...Campbell's gift is in exploring elements of good and evil and infusing them.'
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3.0 out of 5 stars Sad ending, 16 Aug 2009
By Gareth Wilson "drosdelnoch2" - See all my reviews
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Fans of Alan's Deepgate Codex have been chomping at the bit for this conclusion to an epic series and to be honest it was going to have to be something special after the climax of Iron Angel. What was presented was a tale that did exactly what was required, a story to help tie up a lot of the lose ends from the previous instalments yet lacked some of the flair that appeared in the other books of the series.

It is well written, its definitely a series to mark the genre by, but above all it's a series that needed that huge bang right at the end that was more of a fizzle as a number of plot points seemed to just not have the passion or the strength to make it up that final incline. Add to the mix the sad fact that the characters seemed to whimper and retract into themselves rather than grow to increase the longevity and it was a sad ending to the series. However, to counter balance that, the descriptiveness is much better than the original novel and the pace along with Alan's indomitable storytelling style do a lot to save it. I'll look forward to more of his work but hope that he's learned from this outing what went wrong and has a plan to fix it the next time.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A disappointing finale to a great series, 7 Jul 2009
By A. Whitehead "Werthead" (Colchester, Essex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Twelve powerful arconites walk the earth, preparing to bring about the destruction of humanity and bringing its souls under the command of Menoa, Lord of Hell. Ahead of their advance, assassin Rachel Hale, blood-witch Mina Greene, the angel Dill and the god Hasp retreat towards the castle of Sabor, god of clocks. Meanwhile, Cospinol, god of brine, decides that he must mount a direct assault on Menoa and orders his slave-champion, John Anchor, to pull him and his immense vessel into Hell, for a very strange voyage indeed...

God of Clocks is the final volume of The Deepgate Codex (possibly the most misnamed trilogy ever: the titular codex is mentioned a couple of times and plays no substantive role in proceedings at all). It picks up after the cliffhanger ending to the second volume and expectations were for a big, epic climax. Instead, we get something different.

This is an odd book. Campbell's grasp of character and plot remains strong, and the revelations of backstory mysteries are mostly effective. But there are long diversions and side-plots that ultimately don't seem to go anywhere. The introduction of time travel is intriguing - fantasy typically doesn't touch it with a bargepole - and there's a lot of humour going on, but ultimately the narrative becomes confused and self-destructs towards the end. Time travel is often used as a get-out clause for lazy writers, something I'd never have pegged Campbell as (based on the strength of his first two novels), but here it fulfils its all-too tempting deus ex machina, narrative-crutch role. Simply put, the revelation that there are billions of alternate timelines in which every possibility is played out does make the reader wonder why he should be caring about this particular timeline and story. Even worse is the danger that time travel can be used to undo all the events of the story so far, meaning that the losses and prices that our heroes have paid are simply wished out of existence. Whilst the ending doesn't quite go that far (it's ambiguous what does get changed and what doesn't), it's still a bit of a cheat.

God of Clocks (***) is a disappointing finale to the trilogy, which started out superbly but seemed to lose focus and cohesion as it went along, before ending on a decidedly anti-climatic note. There's enough interesting characters and ideas here for the book to be worth reading, but ultimately this is a trilogy that does not deliver on what it promised in the first book. It is available now in the UK and USA.
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2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 21 Jul 2009
By Mr. D. Coley (UK) - See all my reviews
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Book one - Scarnight - different, does not flow that well, but worth the effort. Very unique concept, good original ideas and characters, nice to see something new as opposed to a Tolkien remake.

Book two - Iron Angel - excellent, fantastic, good plot, brilliant character development.

Book three - God of Clocks- first 2/3rds best ever, good action scenes, more humour well written. Last 1/3rd, the end of the trilogy extremely poor, author seemed to loose interest, actually end - was there one? I had to check that my copy was not missing pages. This was a promising series, still could be if God of Clocks was re-written to explain the ending, the transformation of Carnival to Rebecca, what was the final use of Rachel, did Dill and Rachel ever make a go of it? Did the sons of Ayen get a fresh start? How did Anchor and Carnival with the living river actually defeat menoa? Maybe there will be a volume 4 to explain the missing ending!

Very frustrating!
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