By Orson Scott Card
Identify: Gatefather
Author: Orson Scott Card
Print size: 384 pages
Publisher: Tor Books
Publication Date: October 20, 2015
In Gatefather, the 3rd installment within the Mithermages sequence, big apple occasions bestselling writer Orson Scott Card keeps his outstanding story of the Mages of Westil who stay in exile on Earth.
Danny North is the 1st Gate Mage to be born in the world in approximately 2000 years, or a minimum of the 1st to outlive to say his strength. households of Westil in exile in the world have had a treaty that required the dying of any suspected Gate Mage. The wars among the households have been bad, till ultimately they discovered it was once their very own survival in query. yet a Gate Mage, one that may well construct an exceptional Gate again to Westil, could provide his family a bad virtue over the entire others, and reignite the wars. in order that they all needed to die. And if the households didn't kill them, the Gate Thief would-that mysterious Mage who destroyed each nice Gate, and the Gate Mage, sooner than it may be opened among Earth and Westil.
But Danny survived. And Danny battled the Gate Thief, and won.
What he didn't understand on the time was once that the Gate Thief had an excellent explanation for ultimate the nice Gates-and Danny has now fallen into the ability of that fab enemy of either Earth and Westil.
Mither Mages Series
0.2. Sandmagic
0.5. Stonefather
1. The misplaced Gate
2. The Gate Thief
3. Gatefather
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