This Day All Gods Die

The Gap into Ruin , #5

Paperback, 704 pages

English language

Published Sept. 10, 2008 by Orion Publishing Co.

ISBN:
978-0-575-08338-7
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OCLC Number:
36516362
5 stars (2 reviews)

The fifth and final instalment in the GAP sequence: Stephen Donaldson's fascinating universe peopled with characters of a passion and intensity only he could create. As the conflict between humankind and the Amnion heads for crisis, Morn Hyland, the cyborg Angus Thermopyle and the survivors on board the crippled starship Trumpet must return from deep space to Earth.

Their mission is to prevent all-out war with the aliens, which would leave humanity to pay a terrible price. But the Amnion react with swift fury, and suddenly Earth is threatened with fiery destruction ...

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This Day All Gods Die

5 stars

After the malice, degradation and horror of the first three book, Chaos and Order was an easier read, even though there as an undercurrent that things could go sideways at any moment. This final volume dispensed with most of the brutality, and was a fantastic read, I was welling up at the end.

The pacing initially seemed odd, how was he going to fill four to five hundred pages with the end game. Like most if his writing though, it was so well crafted and thought through, that any small missteps were glossed over and I hungrily devoured each page.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this volume, rampant misogyny of some of the male characters aside. While some outcomes were obvious, the path to them less so; which made the whole thing more enjoyable. How was that character going to die, how was this one going to escape, etc. You knew …

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