God of Clocks

Alan Campbell

2009 • 386 pages

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Alan Campbell has set the new standard for epic fantasy. Now the highly acclaimed author of Scar Night and Iron Angel returns with a new novel of a mythic struggle between man and angel, demon and god--an Armageddon of survival and annihilation that will play out on the fields of time itself.War, rebellion, betrayal--but the worst is still to come. For in the cataclysm of the battle of the gods, a portal to Hell has been opened, releasing unnatural creatures that were never meant to be and threatening to turn the world into a killing field. And in the middle, caught between warring gods and fallen angels, humanity finds itself pushed to the brink of extinction. Its only hope is the most unlikely of heroes.Former assassin Rachel Hael has rejoined the blood-magician Mina Greene and her devious little dog, Basilis, on one last desperate mission to save the world from the grip of Hell. Carried in the jaws of a debased angel, they rush to the final defensive stronghold of the god of time--pursued all the while by the twelve arconites, the great iron-and-bone automatons controlled by King Menoa, the Lord of the Maze. Meanwhile, in the other direction, the giant John Anchor, still harnessed to his master's skyship, descends into Hell itself to meet Menoa on his own ground. But neither Heaven nor Hell is anything they could ever expect. Now old enemies and new allies join a battle whose outcome could be the end of them all. Rachel's ally, the god Hasp, finds himself in the grip of a parasite and struggles against conflicting orders to destroy his own friends; and a dangerous infant deity comprised of countless broken souls threatens to overcome them all. As Rachel travels to the final confrontation she has both sought and feared, she begins to realize that time itself is unraveling. And so she must prepare herself for a sacrifice that may claim her heart, her life, her soul--and even then it may not be enough.From the Hardcover edition.

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Deepgate Codex is a 5-book series with 4 released primary works first released in 2006 with contributions by Alan Campbell and Alan Campbell.

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Hanzel

I want to say something nice, but all I get is me scratching my head at this, it's supposed to be the 3rd book where all my questions are to be answered, and yet it irks me, ummmmm my ebook says 287 pages, but the one in goodreads says 367, so I maybe just maybe, there were some resolutions from the missing pages

February 28, 2015

David Woodger

The concluding book in this trilogy is the weakest of the three, but overall this trilogy was endlessly inventive and unpredictable. The first in the trilogy, Scar Night, is still the best especially in terms of plotting. But beginning with the second book, Iron Angel, characters go off in different directions and new characters enter the fray. John Anchor was a favorite. Also, not all loose ends are wrapped up. The story concerns a fight for supremacy among gods (winged angels cast out of Heaven) and the ruler of Hell, King Menoa, the self-styled Lord of the Maze. I enjoyed it all but I it seems to me that the plotting was either more rushed after the first book or the author was nearly making it up as he went along. I'd be keen to see what he comes up with next, though.

July 27, 2010

Metaphorosis Reviews

God of Clocks picks up soon after [b:Iron Angel 2598001 Iron Angel (Deepgate Codex #2) Alan Campbell http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1266953288s/2598001.jpg 2895252] leaves off. It doesn't really add much that's new, though the battle continues, and some of the mysteries are revealed. I'm sorry to say that it's only some. Campbell wove in a number of intriguing threads in books 1 and 2. He leaves quite a lot of them loose in this third volume. There are two other books in this universe, [b:Lye Street 957379 Lye Street Alan Campbell http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1266682207s/957379.jpg 942289] and [b:Damnation for Beginners 14478265 Damnation for Beginners Alan Campbell http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1337982084s/14478265.jpg 20120798], but they appear to be relatively free standing. With that, I'd have to count this closing book of the trilogy as a disappointment. Where Iron Angel fulfilled its promise in unexpected ways, this book does not. It moves the story forward, but deteriorates at the end into a not very satisfying dead end.Towards the end of the book, Campbell inserts a time travel segment. (God of Clocks, after all.) As most time travel efforts do, even in defter hands, this ends with a whimper. Campbell pulls of a slight variation of the time travel standards, but only a slight one. And it ends poorly - more a colorful plot mechanism than credible narrative.As noted, there are two other books in the universe, but I don't expect to buy either of them. I'd sum up this trilogy as interesting and innovative, but hampered by occasionally inadequate description, and brought down by a substandard ending. I can recommend the first book, [b:Scar Night 627204 Scar Night (Deepgate Codex, #1) Alan Campbell http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320430003s/627204.jpg 2128357] as a interesting read, but I'd stop there. You could even stop after book 2, Iron Angel. But in my view, this third book will frustrate and disappoint you.

July 16, 2012