Title: Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever
Lord Foul's Bane
ISBN:0-8050-12729
Pub: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston

Review:

Fantasy books come in a wide and amazing range. Yet they do tend to overlap and share many common themes. Making it hard to find something new and refreshing. This book however has developed an intriguing shoreline. One that has it's roots and subject matter from the authors own experiences from his Father who worked with Lepers. Thus developing the characters with more depth than if the author were writing from just a technical point of view and not from a life experience foundation.

Our Protagonist has found himself in a World far displaced from his own. One that he constantly has to grapple with to understand. One that he rejects as the title says as an Unbeliever. Yet one that he himself may have conjured up as a writer. As he travels through this strange and bewildering land, he meets people who challenge his ideas of right and wrong. As well as meeting with some of his own inner demons.

The end of the book is well crafted and shows the reader that there is more to expect in the next book in the trilogy.

M J Flack