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The Tower on the Rift (The View from the Mirror #2)

Ian Irvine

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 664 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 2267 Users | 49 Reviews

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Title	:	The Tower on the Rift (The View from the Mirror #2)
Author	:	Ian Irvine
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 664 pages
Published	:	1998 by Penguin Group
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Epic Fantasy. High Fantasy

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In the second volume of this stunning and original saga, Ian Irvine continues The View from the Mirror, a brilliant epic fantasy that rivals the works of Robert Jordan and J. V. Jones.

THE TALE OF THE DRY SEA
The ancient city of Thurkad has fallen, and all who gathered there for the Great Conclave are scattered. Driven mad, the young sensitive Karan is left for dead. Her lover, Llian the Chronicler, is captured by the renegade Aachim, who plan to use the Twisted Mirror for an act of millennial vengeance. The great mancers, including Magister Mendark, flee, die, or are rendered powerless, and even the conquering sorcerer Yggur is threatened by a growing fear of what is to come. For the path of all heroes and villains will meet in the cursed desert called the Dry Sea. And there, in a lost fortress of power, terrible forbidden magics will merge with desperation and folly— and unleash forces that can shatter the destiny of worlds...

READ the first chapter: http://www.ian-irvine.com/tower_ch1.html

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AWARDS AND LISTINGS

Listed in the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Books of 1998

Listed in Sciencefiction.com's Best of 2001


REVIEWS

“High suspense and tense character interaction – great reading!” Van Ikin, Sydney Morning Herald BEST BOOKS OF 1998.

‘Wonderfully deep, fast-paced adventure.' Barnesandnoble.com (US).

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Original Title:	The Tower on the Rift
ISBN:	0140276807 (ISBN13: 9780140276800)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The View from the Mirror #2, The Three Worlds Cycle #2

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There are a few pros and cons to the second installment. Pros - In this series, the characters are three-dimensional, more in-depth than the first installment. - The plot takes unexpected developments and twists - Fantastic world developmentCons - At over six-hundred pages, it was too long for the amount of action that took place, a lot of it could have been either trimmed down or skipped. - The laws of 'magic' in the Three Worlds was never explained and referred to as a 'Secret Art' more time

This book is terrible. I would go into detail about why this book is terrible but then I would have to think about this book. Which I refuse to do. Because it's terrible.I lied I read through some other Reviews of This Book and none of them even come close to touching how fucking terrible this book really is so I am going to actually go into depth about it because fuck this book fuck the people who thought it was good just fuck it I hate it all.So let's start by getting into how the characters

The epic re-read of Ian Irvine's first series continues with even more slogging through inhospitable landscapes in multiple viewpoints, towards another high-powered confrontation between the long-lived Mendark, Tensor, Faelamor, and Yggur on one side and the mounting menace of long-imprisoned Rulke.Not a tremendous lot happens across the viewpoints all told, once you strip out the long journeys. Both Llian and Karan suffer further, Tensor and Mendark bewail their ineffectiveness, Maigraith

The book has exciting parts, but badly needs editing. The endless ruminations and cries of despair really wear thin after the 900th repetition. Too bad because the world- building and characterizations are outstanding and the relationships are very believable, but the book starts to drag after a while. This series would have been much better as a trilogy than a quadrilogy.

Boring in places but characters are engaging enough to make you keep reading.

This book has some amazing moments and terrific characters, as always. *****SPOILERS****But the moment that makes it a book to never forget is when Rulke jumps out of the void. Irvine had been building him up as a major power, a Sauron type, and when he comes out he delivers just the kind of power you wish he had.

Wow. I laboured through the first book and hoped the second would pick up. It didnt. I simply dont care enough about the characters, the plot or the awkward writing style to continue this series.