In this mesmerizing sequel to The Dragonbone Chair , best-selling author Tad Williams returns us to the troubled realms of humans, Quanuc trolls, and Sithi, as the dark magic and terrigying minions of the undead Sithi ruler, Ineluki the Storm King, spread their seemingly undefeatable evil across the realm of Osten Ard.
Middle volumes are always a problem.
They're not the ending and they're not the beginning. Things have to happen, but nothing really resolves. One of the things that kept me sane while writing Stone of Farewell was that I'd never done it before. This was really only the third book of my career, so everything was pretty new, but the middle-volume problems in particular were happening to me for the first time. The other sanity-preserving factor was that I allowed things to develop on their own.