The Books of Ile-Rien · Book 5
The Gate of Gods
- Published
- 1 November 2005
- Pages
- 409
- ISBN-13
- 9780380977901
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Gate of Gods closes out Martha Wells's Books of Ile-Rien, published in November 2005 at 409 pages. It's the final book in the five-novel series and the conclusion of the Fall of Ile-Rien sequence that began with The Wizard Hunters, following The Ships of Air.
Its place in The Books of Ile-Rien
The Gate of Gods is book 5 in the The Books of Ile-Rien series. It follows The Ships of Air. See the full The Books of Ile-Rien reading order.
Ile-Rien is Martha Wells's recurring secondary-world setting, a magic-using nation with a distinctly Gaslamp, Belle Epoque flavor rather than standard medieval fantasy trappings. The Element of Fire (1993), her debut novel, follows a court sorceress and a captain of the Queen's Guard defending Ile-Rien from both a fae incursion and courtly conspiracy. The Death of the Necromancer (1998), set a generation later, follows a gentleman-thief protagonist whose revenge scheme against the man who ruined his family…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780380977901