Hour of the Daemon

Daemon Gates #3

by Aaron Rosenberg

Alaric and Dietz have one last chance to track down the daemon and destroy it before it materialises and lays waste to the civilised world. This time, their journey takes them into the dark heart of the Grey Mountains, where they must face a savage horde of beastmen and their mutated ruler. Even with the help of their allies, the wood elves, how can our heroes ever hope to triumph against such impossible odds?

Genres: Fantasy

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 4, 2007

About the author

Aaron Rosenberg is an award-winning, bestselling novelist, children’s book author, and game designer. He's written original fiction (including the NOOK-bestselling humorous science fiction novel No Small Bills, the Dread Remora space-opera series, and the O.C.L.T. supernatural thriller series), tie-in novels (including the PsiPhi winner Collective Hindsight for Star Trek: SCE, the Daemon Gates trilogy for Warhammer, Tides of Darkness and the Scribe-nominated Beyond the Dark Portal for WarCraft, Hunt and Run for Stargate: Atlantis, and Substitution Method and Road Less Traveled for Eureka), young adult novels (including the Scribe-winning Bandslam: The Novel and books for iCarly and Ben10), children's books (including an original Scholastic Bestseller series, Pete and Penny's Pizza Puzzles, and work for PowerPuff Girls and Transformers Animated), roleplaying games (including original games like Asylum and Spookshow, the Origins Award-winning Gamemastering Secrets, and sections of The Supernatural Roleplaying Game, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and The Deryni Roleplaying Game), short stories, webcomics, essays, and educational books. He has ranged from mystery to speculative fiction to drama to comedy, always with the same intent—to tell a good story. You can visit him online at gryphonrose.com or follow him on Twitter @gryphonrose.

Reviews

[Paulo "paper books only" · Rating 4 out of 5]

After reading the first two novels I had to read the last one as soon as possible. What can I say? Again Aaron did it again but it was the weakest of the three.

If the characterization was good and the turning of Alaric to the dark side was very entertaining in the other hand this book had almost nothing of fluff to give us besides a few hints of the sacred forest of the wood elves.

On the plus side Kristoff is back from the first adventure and the tracker called Lankdorf from the second.

So why the dissapointing? The end. It was almost anti-climatic...

Let me begin from the start. Both Alaric and Dietz have travelled around the Olde Worlde and defeated for two times a Daemon. In the third book they travelled again from Middenhein to the grey mountains. There they defeated a demon with the "help" of some wood elves who have threatened them. As they for the third time thwarted the plans of the daemon the elves appear and yet again say that they are trespassing Athel Loren so they must die.... And the last chapter ends with them three (Alaric, Kristoff and Dietz) charging the elves (with superior numbers). The epilogue is set on the river on a small boat with a dying man who we get no gilimpse of who it is... (well it says that he's got a scared face so it must be Alaric who got his face scared by Glouste when saving him from the daemon).

So what happenned? After defeating an horde of enemies they die by the hands of a bunch of mythical elves who are not even evil? It's an inverted deus ex machina...