The Perilous Tower
core novel 2020 The Three Worlds Cycle
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.38 (77 ratings, collected 2026-10-09) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780648285496 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
The Merdrun have at last succeeded in invading Santhenar, the culmination of a plan ten thousand years in the making, but they have only fifty-five days to build the Sapphire Portal, the greatest tower in the history of the Three Worlds, and put their dreadful purpose into effect. Karan, Llian and their uneasy allies have the same fifty-five days to destroy the reborn summon stone that gives the Merdrun their power, and to develop their daughter Sulien's gift and unlock the hidden memory that could reveal the invaders' one fatal weakness. But Sulien has been abducted, with dozens of other gifted children and a hundred thousand adults, all enslaved to build the portal in time, and to save her Karan faces the hardest choice of all: going into the enemy camp as a helpless slave herself.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Three Worlds Cycle
- Series: The Gates of Good and Evil core; position 3 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Ian Irvine
Notes
- From the series record (The Gates of Good and Evil): The fourth Three Worlds series and the direct sequel to The View from the Mirror: Karan and Llian, and their gifted daughter Sulien, against the Merdrun, warriors from the void called to Santhenar by a waking summon stone. The final volume is presented as concluding the whole Three Worlds sequence.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Gates of Good and Evil: position 3 of 4: previous The Fatal Gate (2017) · next The Sapphire Portal (2020)
- Internal chronology, within The Three Worlds Cycle: position 12 of 15: previous The Destiny of the Dead (2008) · next The Way Between the Worlds (1999)
Sources
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