The Door into Sunset

by Diane Duane

Paperback, 1994

Status

Available

Call number

Fic SF Duane

Publication

Tor Books (1994), Paperback, 384 pages

Description

This third volume of the Tale of the Five series continues the saga of Freelorn, his lover Herewiss and their people. To set the Fire free, Freelorn must stand up to his responsibilities as king. If he fails, the Goddess' plans will be ruined and the Fire will never be freed to the people.

User reviews

LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey

It's a Duane, so of course it's saving the world from the Darkness by figuring out who you are and surrendering to truth. She's about as formulaic as Andre Norton - amazing what variety you can get from something that can be described with a simple formula! The Doors series is somewhat frustrating

- been waiting for the fourth one for...16 years now? Ah well, it's a good re-read anyway. It does actually come to a reasonable sort of closure - in fact, if she hadn't _said_ there would be a fourth book, this one could be an end. After all, everyone gets married and settles down...for some definition of settles down. And I do mean everyone gets married - all in one marriage! You don't have to worry about how everyone's going to pair off in this one.

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LibraryThing member melannen

This brings Duane's epic fantasy saga to its sweeping conclusion, and epic and sweeping are the right words for it. The King of Arlen and the Queen of Darthen take their people to war against the Shadow and his minions.

But she just does it so *well*.

And the characters keep derailing this from

turning into Just Another Fantasy Novel by being intelligent and mature and capable of *communicating effectively with each other*. And *real*. You come out of it, for all the gloriously happy ending, feeling like it was all a tragedy. Because it was. It was a war.

And yes, all seven of the main characters do have a group marriage at the end. You believe that they'll actually be able to pull that through, too, though it may be even harder than the war.

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LibraryThing member bluesalamanders

Much more "traditional" fantasy than Duane's other books. This is the third in the "Door Into" series, but the local libraries (wonderful as they are) didn't have the first two. Only the third. Because that makes sense... Anyway, my point is, there was a lot I didn't understand because I haven't

read the first two books. I'll probably have to either read them at the bookstore or maybe buy them in order to read them.

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