Mountain of Black Glass - Tad Williams

Tad Williams can't count. He can write, and wonderfully. But it seems that his maths skills aren't up to his other talents. Why? Because his mighty Otherland series, like his previous series Memory, Sorrow and Thorn has spilled over from the traditional trilogy to fill four books. After that, I should explain that the story is worth any number of books. Williams might not be able to pick up a pen without filling thousands of pages, but his imagination and story telling will carry you through them and leave you hungry for more. Hours slip by unnoticed. The Otherland books are set in the mid- twenty first century. Mountain of Black Glass is the ...  Read the complete review

Often series of books start off well and then drag at some point but these have no sign of doing so.In this volume questions finally begin to get answered and the different parties start to join up.It still has all the bizarre worlds and mythological overtones so don't worry.It keeps throwing you curve balls so you're never quite sure what is going to happenb next. I really can't wait for the next one which is supposedly the last.That one will answer all the questions(fingers crossed) and resolve the cliffhanger ending of this book which I still don't understand.I'll have to read that bit again(not that I haven't already).I have faith that all ...  Read the complete review