The Seventh Gate: A Death Gate Novel, Volume 7 (The Death Gate Cycle)

✍ Scribed by Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

• Publisher: Spectra;Bantam Books
• Year: 1994;1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 166 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

From Publishers Weekly

Thousands of pages have been spent getting to this seventh and final book in the massive Death Gate Cycle (Into the Labyrinth). Only the most voracious fans of Weis and Hickman will feel it was worth the effort; anyone else will find that incomprehensible (and poorly sketched) landscapes and tedious prose make this volume both dizzying and dull. Here, Marit (a sorceress), Hugh the Hand, Alfred the Sartan and Haplo the Patryn join forces to stop various nefarious (or at least misguided and misunderstood) villains as they try to subjugate each other's races, get to Death's Gate and destroy the world as they know it. A significant portion of the more interesting lore and stories (of elves who imprison their souls in ornate boxes, etc.), however, gets little more than footnotes, an epilogue or a short mention in the appendices. While these addenda seem an attempt to add literary flavor to this hodgepodge of zombies, sorcerors, dragons and a schizophrenically postmodern God who occasionally thinks he's James Bond, they succeed only in upping the page count.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

A spectacular journey that takes heroes Haplo and Marit through each of the sundered realms and beyond the sinister Seventh Gate culminates with a battle against the forces of evil in this conclusion to the seven-volume "Death Gate Cycle." Purchase where the series is popular.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Library : Fantasy
Universes : Death Gate Cycle [07]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780553573251