The Golden City Trilogy | The Golden City: Book Three of the Fourth Realm Trilogy (Vintage)

A great conclusion to an amazing trilogy. | The Golden City: Book Three of the Fourth Realm Trilogy (Vintage) | John Twelve Hawks

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	• The Golden City: Book Three of the Fourth Realm Trilogy (Vintage) John Twelve Hawks Vintage, 2010 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 49 reviews view larger image
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Found myself working to get through it

Not as strong as the first 2 installments. Worth reading to close out the series, but not a page turner in its own right.

The Golden City Trilogy

It had been so long since the second book, I had to go back and review the previous books. Exciting plot twists, and in the back of your mind you can realize it could happen!

A great conclusion to an amazing trilogy.

Though this book was much anticipated it took me 8 months to read it. Now to be honest I read it in three sittings. The reason it took so long is that when the first book, The Traveler came out 5 years ago, it was one of the best fiction books I had read in more than ten years. Once I started the book, I realized the series would end, I have heard nothing about more books by John XII Hawks, so I did not want the story to end. Then when I sat down and started it again I raced through to the finish. I plan on reading the whole series again soon.

No one really knows who John Twelve Hawks is, his interviews use a voice modulator, he supposedly has never met with his publisher, and only communicates electronically or through a satellite phone. That mystery was intriguing when the first book came out, and rumors have abounded about who he might be. But I do not think that really matters, he writes under a pen name and wants to keep his privacy. What matters is that he is an excellent story teller and has crafted an excellent dystopian trilogy. If you have not read the first books, I highly recommend them.

A battle rages between two brothers Michael and Gabriel Corrigan, but also between two groups, the Brethern who want to control every person on the planet and will use almost any means to achieve that control, and a resistance movement lead my Gabriel Corrigan, a traveler who can leave this plane of existence and travel to other realms, and his Harlequin guardians. The Harlequins have protected the Travelers for generations. Historically the Harlequins stayed out the of Travelers plans and only protected them from the Breathern who want to hunt them down and kill them. Now Michael Corrigan has usurped control of the Breathern and wants to control the whole world and use his power as a Traveler to plan and achieve that control. Gabriel and an interconnected groups of different people do not want to allow that to happen.

The world is being turned upside down, governments are using fear to control people and systematically strip their freedom. There is a vast machine of security camera's, email sniffing programs, facial recognition ... growing in our world, and there are dark forces behind the scenes pulling all those resources together into an electronic prison for each of us.

Michael and Gabriel have both experienced the other realms but both come back with a different vision for mankind. Who will win this battle for mankinds hearts and minds.

The story has a fast pace, and a number of surprising twists in the series storyline. It also leave the ending open to a continuation and a few interpretations. One of the best things about the series is that it will cause readers to ask questions! Questions about what really matters in life, how intentional they are about how they live, about freedom and purpose in life. It is a great book and I can only hope for more from the author.

Fourth Reams Trilogy:
The Traveler
The Dark River
The Golden City

(First Published in Imprint 2010-07-30.)

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I was so looking forward to this book and I love the series so I decided to give this a 4 despite how disappointing I found it.

As always, the writing was great and there were a lot of good memes in there, the whole thing really comes off as a sort of super sigil, which is great. Unfortunately, it was pretty anticlimactic and predictable. What was worse was the character development. To save this from being a spoiler I'll just say it was flat.

The part that I hated the most (on a personal note) was Nighthawk. His character was SUCH a cliche. I think I might fall over dead if I ever find a terminally ill character that isn't (A) inspiring or (B) bitter. The fact that he had MD really annoyed me too, given his lame (for lack of a more appropriate pun-worthy word) pity filled personality

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A world that exists in the shadow of our own . . . the thrilling conclusion to John Twelve Hawks's Fourth Realm trilogy, The Golden City is packed with the knife-edge tension, intriguing characters, and startling plot twists that made The Traveler and The Dark River international hits.

John Twelve Hawks's previous novels about the mystical Travelers and the Brethren, their ruthless enemies, generated an extraordinary following around the world. The Washington Post wrote that The Traveler ?portrays a Big Brother with powers far beyond anything Orwell could imagine . . .? and Publishers Weekly hailed the series as ?a saga that's part A Wrinkle in Time, part The Matrix and part Kurosawa epic.? Internet chat rooms and blogs have overflowed with speculation about the final destiny of the richly imagined characters fighting an epic battle beneath the surface of our modern world.

In The Golden City, Twelve Hawks delivers the climax to his spellbinding epic. Struggling to protect the legacy of his Traveler father, Gabriel faces troubling new questions and relentless threats. His brother Michael, now firmly allied with the enemy, pursues his ambition to wrest power from Nathan Boone, the calculating leader of the Brethren. And Maya, the Harlequin warrior pledged to protect Gabriel at all costs, is forced to make a choice that will change her life forever.

A riveting blend of high-tech thriller and fast-paced adventure, The Golden City will delight Twelve Hawks's many fans and attract a new audience to the entire trilogy.

From the Hardcover edition.

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