The Realms of the Gods

by Tamora Pierce

Mass Market Paperback, 368 pages

English language

Published Dec. 19, 2005 by Simon Pulse.

ISBN:: 978-1-4169-0817-3

(19 reviews)

Daine should have killed Ozorne when she had the chance. Now the former Emperor turned Stormwing, has raised a band of pirates, brigands and Immortals intent on destroying Tortall. But through his quest for revenge, the evil mage has unleashed a darkness beyond even his reckoning. Ozorne has made a foolish pact with Usoae, God of Chaos. Daine must seek help in the Divine Realms, for this vile queen will not stop with the extermination of Tortall. She exists with one purpose - to suck all life into chaos and oblivion.

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StorydevGrace reviewed The Realms of the Gods by Tamora Pierce (The Immortals, #4)

Review of 'The Realms of the Gods' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

While I loved the author as a teen due to her influx of female heroines in the male-dominated fantasy adventure genre, I have grown out of this series due to the types of relationships the author encourages in teenage girls, which played a part in my unrealistic expectations regarding romance and my underperformance at school. <spoiler>Numair and Daine have implied mutual attraction throughout the series, culminating in an established relationship by the final book when Daine is conveniently legal (where I live) at sixteen but still too young to be snogging her thirty-year-old teacher, who doesn't, to my mind, have nearly enough guilt about allowing it. This is not the kind of relationship impressionable teens should be encouraged to pursue.</spoiler>

Mark Philpot reviewed The Realms of the Gods by Tamora Pierce (The Immortals, #4)

Review of 'The Realms of the Gods' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

The barrier between the mortal and immortal realms has fallen and war has broken out. We discover more about Daine's ancestry (which explain a few things) and we get a nice resolution to the budding relationship between Daine and Numair.

The series ends well, though on the whole the series didn't live up to the Alanna series (nor the PotS follow up). I would have thought it's a well known rule that your protagonist has to have some flaws -- something to overcome -- to make it a really good sympathetic character. Daine unfortunately really fails in this respect, to the detriment of the entire series.