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The Destiny of the Dead

The Song of the Tears, Book 3

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The Destiny of the Dead

By: Ian Irvine
Narrated by: Jack Hawkins
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The dramatic concluding volume in an epic tale of hope in the face of adversity.

Nish, his battered little troop and his few remaining allies are trapped on the Range of Ruin by the God-Emperor's mighty army. Nish's only choices are a humiliating surrender to his father or a suicidal fight to the death. Yet Nish has to fight, and somehow he has to win, for the beautiful world of Santhenar is in peril and no-one else can save it.

Stilkeen, an all-powerful shape-shifting being from the void, has come to recover the stolen chthonic fire which once bound its physical and spirit aspects together, and it wants revenge for the mortal insult that was done to it. But it may be too late for Santhenar; chthonic fire has been released from its casket and is now eating away the Antarctic lands as it once devoured the planet of Aachan.

Even if, by some miracle, Nish can win the battle with his father, there may be no way to stop the fire, or Stilkeen, before the whole world is consumed.

©2008 Ian Irvine (P)2017 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction

Critic Reviews

"Makes what's currently available on fantasy shelves seem hackneyed and formulaic. Utterly absorbing." ( The Independent Weekly)
"Unbelievably, Irvine has managed to increase the pace of his story in this third and final volume - for sheer excitement, there's just no one like Irvine around at the moment." ( SFX)
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love the story, and have followed all so far in series. using a 2nd narrator who pronounced every name differently than the first is very off putting

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Again! Jack Hawkins you are the worst!
Why change all of the names?! Grrrrrrr!

Great book terrible narrator

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Authors often describe the emotion or intent a character has. There were some times where the emotion in the performance didn't match the descriptions to my ears, but I'm just nitpicking at an otherwise high quality audiobook. Historical knowledge of the series would be ideal as this book often refers to the mirror and well of echoes. Mostly mirror.

Near perfect

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This was less interesting because it was more of the same. Such a long chase running and searching. Still a number of twists and the expressive language had humour as well.

Long finale

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