Spell of Apocalypse

Dance of the Gods #4

by Mayer Alan Brenner

In the zany conclusion of The Dance of Gods tetrology, the various warring factions of good and evil come together to resolve their separate destinies. Original.

Genres: Fantasy, Ebooks

320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published May 1, 1994

Reviews

[Dantegideon]

OK, so the first two books are kind of fun and the last two are grimdark. This is my least favourite thing to happen with a series. Up yours, grimdark!

[Mike]

I wish I'd taken the title seriously. I dislike apocalyptic, and this is it.

To all the faults of the previous books in the series - overly high-flown language, overly complex machinations, occasional odd OCR errors - is added a general darkening as the plot goes on.

It's an interesting world, and I like sword-and-sorcery and was able to enjoy it when it was that, but overall, a bit of a disappointing conclusion to a less-than-outstanding series.

[Mohammad Alamin]

Excelent Story 💕💕💕

[George Polansky]

The Conclusion. I waited too long to finish this series and I can't give an honest review. What I remembered followed the story line.

[Jsnows]

And so these intertwined tales of intrigue and social upheaval come to and end with a surge of action and the proverbial BANG!

Poetic license aside, I must say that these 2 last books of Dance of the Gods really picked up the pace and kept me glued to them wanting to find out how events developed. This last book did a great job of tying up all the loose ends, at least all the major ones as Jurtan Mont's musical ability was never really explained and I was rather curious about it.


All in all I enjoyed reading the series a lot and, with it's rather different approach to magic, unpredictable plot turns and colourful characters, can't help wondering why it seems to have failed commercially.

[Dan]

Would you like to know the deep, dark secret of this series? The secret is, all the magic is actually run by nanobots which read the user's intentions and then reshape the world accordingly.

Except that really doesn't make any sense, y'know? All that stuff they went through, about gods and coupling and energy conversion and the "second quantum level" and the constant need for energy? Since when do you need nanobots to access the "second quantum level"?

[Linda]

This is the last book of a delightful tongue-in-cheek sword and sorcery series. The plotting is intricate, the writing is intelligent and amusing, and the characters are varied and each unique.

I felt like at the ending some of the multiple storylines could have better resolved, so I take off 1 star for that, but overall, it was worth the trouble to request these from library storage vaults.

[Dan]

Incredibly disappointing last installment. The last quarter of the book is one unsatisfying anti-climax after another. While the world-changing cataclysm itself is not disappointing, everything just falls flat afterward.

[Johnny]

The last of the Mayer Alan Brenner books. They were on feedbooks.com and I had to download them to read on the kindle. I read them years ago and thought they were ok. Now that I'm a bit older and wiser, they are still just ok. Guess I was pretty smart all those years ago.

[Michael McDougall]

Solid, slightly tongue in cheek fantasy adventure.

[Nicole]

Didn't read the others. Never understood quite what was happening. Still, a fun ole time!