title: The Scrolls of the Ancients: Volume III of the Chronicles of Blood and Stone (Chronicles of Blood and Stone, Volume 3)
author:  Robert Newcomb 
description: Too much exposition and characters less developed than in earlier installments mar the fast-paced final volume in Newcomb's Chronicles of Blood and Stone fantasy trilogy, set in the strife-torn realm of Eutracia. In the first book, The Fifth Sorceress (2002), Prince Tristan was forced to kill his own parents to save them from torture. In the second, The Gates of Dawn (2003), he had to battle his son, Nicholas, who had died and then been brought back to life devoted to evil. Here, just when Tristan was running out of family to feud with, Newcomb introduces his long-lost half-brother Wulfgar, a decent sort who's turned into an evil master of the Vagaries, who represent the dark side of magic. In the end, Tristan and his sister Shailiha fail to fulfill a major prophecy, a lack of resolution that will strike many readers as a poor way to conclude a series that started out with so much promise. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  The Scrolls of the Ancients
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  VOLUME III
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE CHRONICLES OF BLOOD AND STONE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Scrolls of the Ancients is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places,
  and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or
  dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Del Rey® Book
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by The Random House Publishing Group
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2004 by Robert Newcomb
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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