- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: Spectra (Dec 1 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0553379569
- ISBN-13: 978-0553379563
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.7 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,221,353 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Library Journal
Seeking a cure for a sickness that immolates its victims, Travis Wilder once again makes the journey from his Colorado home to the magic-rich world of Eldh, where a similar plague sweeps across the land, leaving terror in its wake. Reunited with fellow cross-world traveler Grace Beckett, now a magical healer, Travis confronts his greatest fears in the hopes of saving his own world and the new world he has come to love. Anthony's sequel to Beyond the Pale details a world of medieval customs underscored with deep-rooted magics and ancient evils. For most fantasy collections.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
The second installment in Anthony's fantasy saga (Beyond the Pale, 1998). Travis Wilder, a bar owner in Castle City, Colorado, has the ability to visit Eldh, a medieval-magic world of knights, witches, and monsters. In Eldh, dysfunctional Travis can work rune magic through the sigil inscribed on his palm. Another insecure American, ER doctor Grace Becket, has Weirding talentsshe can sense and magically manipulate life-threads. Unlike Travis, Grace chose to stay in Eldh at the conclusion of the previous adventure. Travis, once more on Earth, is beset by cryptic black-clad beings and other weird characters given to gnomic utterances and seemingly bent on exploiting his knowledge of Eldh. Inexplicably, though, people are bursting into flames, while on Eldh Grace encounters a parallel Burning Plague. So only in Eldh will Travis and Grace find answers, by way of the usual quests, battles, and character-building confrontations. Barely distinguishable from heaps of similar productions. Fans only. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Kind of refreshing, but empty calories,
By Brenopa "bsmith376" (Southern California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Keep of Fire: Book Two of The Last Rune (Mass Market Paperback)
Hey, we can't eat broccoli all the time! We need to enjoy something relatively non-nutritive from time to time. This, the 2nd book in the Last Rune series, is the literary equivalent of jalapeno poppers! Lots of dramatic action--the lead characters are constantly imperiled! People are always getting nearly killed. Travis and Grace, the transplants from Earth to the magical realm of Eldh, are remarkably resilient when plopped into a somewhat inconsistent world. (For example, what is the real difference between maddok and coffee? Why even bother? Horses, sheep, bread and clothes are are medieval style. Why create a drink exactly like coffee, (only better) and call it maddok?) These little things can be irritating--almost as irritating as the fairly bad illustrations on the cover. (Can we have the characters depicted to match their descriptions in the book?) Despite all this, I enjoyed the action and energy. The author is not afraid of completely bizarre and unforseen plot twists dropping out of nowhere. Enjoyable, but leaves you wanting something a little more filling.
3.0 out of 5 stars
A little more and a little less,
By Daffydd (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Keep of Fire: Book Two of The Last Rune (Mass Market Paperback)
I read the first book and was pleased, there were a few missteps I could except as first novelitus, and a few good points that made me interested in reading further into the series. The Keep of Fire, dissapointing, because the same writing missteps from the first novel keep happening. AND because there was an exceptional novel another draft or two away. TOO MUCH having characters inner voices trying to browbeat those main characters, and the 'I should but I can't but I must this isn't me...' TOO LITTLE in having created a supporting character who was sympathetic, and then having him die... and being left with the feeling with a little more developement, the death would have been trully dramatic. I think this writer needs... like one more creative writing lesson... and take that from someone who needs MANY more lessons.
5.0 out of 5 stars
An Excellent Continuation of "The Last Rune" Series,
By Ariel (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Keep of Fire: Book Two of The Last Rune (Mass Market Paperback)
The Keep of Fire is a wonderful chapter in this captivating series. I bought Beyond the Pale on a whim, and was hooked on the series. Keep of Fire shows furthur development in the characters of Grace and Travis, as well as that of other familiar and new personalities in the saga. Anthony's continues with his masterful style of pulling the reader right into the action. He paints a verbal picture so vivid that the reader may jump by merely reading a discription of a scene, or reading a comment by one of the characters. An excellent read, The Keep of Fire will lead you right back to Amazon to purchase the next book in the series!
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