The Other of One - Book Three: The Lythiann Chronicles

When I first heard the premise for the final part of Brian G. Burke’s stellarfantasy series, The Other Of One, I have to admit to raising an eyebrow at thedirection it was taking. Although not quite a genre hop, with The Other Of OnePart Three the author has decided to shake things up slightly by pushing thestory forward to a quite different future than we saw at the end of book two, inthis case, while not quite being a modern place, there are now some steampunk-ish elements now added to the wor

Wow. This is the most darkest and depressing of the three.So William returns to Lythiann only to discover another evil had taken over. Lythian has been cast into a Long Dark winter. This once beautiful realm is now a congested city run by humans! After discovering his whole village in Ballycongraggon has been destroyed, his mother and the villagers gone, William returns to locate them in Lythiann where they have been enslaved. He has spontaneously aged 14 years and is now in his 20's. This aging

Stories never really end, and heroes never really die. In Book Three, William is back where he didn't think he would ever be again, where he shouldn't be again. Lythiann has changed, and so has he. Book Three is dark and hopeless seeming, but hope never dies, and heroes never give in. Friends and comrades are found and lost again, allies made. The Other of One: Book Three completes the Trilogy. Our Irish Seanchaí finishes the story he started in grand style. The reader will only be disappointed