These books, published shortly after Terry Brooks’ Sword of Shannara in 1977, contributed to the boom in modern fantasy. The reason I haven’t rated the middle book as highly is that a third of it focuses on Hile Troy – Covenant is off doing other things – and Troy just isn’t a very interesting character, although he comes to life a little when his back’s against the wall. But on the other hand, it’s Stephen Donaldson! He’s an intelligent writer who makes little allowance for delicate sensibilities (his main character is a self-hating, rapist leper, for instance). There’s something a little too overdone about it a bit self-important perhaps, though not exactly pretentious. The Thomas Covenant books are heavy going: lots of long words necessitate frequent trips to the dictionary, and Donaldson’s trademark intensity is not as effective as in later books (especially the Gap series). Well, Donaldson is my favourite author and this is his most famous work, but for me this is his least enjoyable work.
… Consisting of Lord Foul’s Bane, The Illearth War and The Power that Preserves.
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