Tremaine Valiarde and a small, brave band of heroes ventured into a wondrous new realm on their desperate mission to save Ile-Rien from the conquering Gardier. Now, as a relentless enemy creates chaos and destruction -- with the fate of the magical city of Lodun hanging in the balance -- the last hope of a land besieged may rest on the far side of a secret portal.

But the doorway leads to a mysterious ruin hidden behind the awesome Gate of Gods -- and to perils that dwarf anything Tremaine and her allies could have possibly imagined. . . .

Review

...the final volume inWells's imaginative and complex Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy (after 2004's The Ships of Air ), her resourceful and witty heroine, Tremaine Valiarde, and a ragtag band of followers have the magic of the Viller spheres tohelp resist the almost invincible invading Gardier.- Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Martha Wells is the author of fourteen fantasy novels, including The WizardHunters , The Ships of Air, The Gate of Gods , The Element of Fire , andthe Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer. Her newest novel, The Cloud Roads , was published in March 2011 by Night Shade Books, andthe sequel, The Serpent Sea , in January 2012. Her next fantasy novels will be The Siren Depths , to be published by Night Shade in December 2013, and Emilie and the Hollow World , to be published by Strange Chemistry Books in April 2013. She has had shortstories in the magazines Black Gate , Realms of Fantasy , Lone StarStories , and Stargate Magazine , and in the Tsunami Relief anthology Elemental. She has also written twomedia-tie-in novels, Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary and Stargate Atlantis: Entanglement.

From Publishers Weekly

At the start of the final volume in Wells's imaginative and complex Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy (after 2004's The Ships of Air ), her resourceful and witty heroine, Tremaine Valiarde, and a ragtag band of followers have the magic of the Viller spheres to help resist the almost invincible invading Gardier. Unfortunately, too many pieces of the puzzle remain missing for them to effectively defend what's left of the country of Ile-Rien, let alone liberate the rest of it. When the sphere-entrapped sorcerer Arisilde sends them a spell that eventually leads to "a train station for world-gates," Tremaine and her cohorts may have finally found a way to drive the Gardier out of Ile-Rien. New readers are advised to start with the first in the series, The Wizard Hunters (2003), as an acquaintance with numerous characters and previous action is essential.
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From Booklist

Two books ago, in The Wizard Hunters (2003), Wells showed Ile-Rien about to fall to the mysterious, unstoppable Gardier, who attack from black airships; thanks to a sphere created by sorcerer Nicholas Valiarde, his daughter Tremaine and a ship's crew of defenders are thrown into a world more primitive than Ile-Rien. In The Ships of Air (2004), the Gardier, revealed as hailing from yet another world, are revealed to be using magic they don't completely understand, and Ile-Rien's defenders learn enough to defeat the Gardier. Now, in The Gate of Gods , Tremaine Valiarde and her comrades have found a hidden Gardier base and hints of what may stop them, though it calls for jumping near blindly through more sorcerous gates, and Ile-Rien is running out of time. Wells shows us some very convincing characters in a desperate situation: attacked without warning, their usual weapons made ineffective, and with allies sometimes as strange as their enemies. The plot is very complex, so start the trilogy at the beginning. Frieda Murray
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