SummaryCertain works of fantasy are immediately recognizable as
monuments, towering above the rest of the category. They
have been written by the likes of Stephen R. Donaldson,
Robert Jordan, and Terry Goodkind. Now add to that list
David Farland, whose epic fantasy series began with The
Runelords, continued in Brotherhood of the Wolf and the New
York Times bestseller Wizardborn, and reaches its peak now
in The Lair of Bones. Prince Gaborn, the Earth King, has defeated the forces
arrayed against him each time before: the magical and human
forces marshaled by Raj Ahten, who seeks immortality at any
cost and has given up his humanity in trade; and the
inhuman, innumerable, insectile hordes of the giant Reavers
from under the Earth, whose motives are unknowable, but
inimical to human life. Now there must be final
confrontations, both on the field of battle, with the
supernatural creature that Raj Ahten has become, and
underground, in the cavernous homeland of the Reavers,
where the sorcerous One True Master who rules them all lies
in wait--in the Lair of Bones. The survival of the human
race on Earth is at stake.
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