Description
The Hour of the Gate is the second book in Alan Dean Foster’s Spellsinger series, picking up as Jonathan Meriweather is once again dragged into a fight he’s barely equipped for. The threat that once loomed in the Greendowns has evolved into something far more dangerous, forcing Jon-Tom and his mismatched companions into hostile territory no one has ever crossed and lived to report.
Their route takes them down a perilous underground river, through the domain of Massaurath—the monstrous “Mother of Nightmares”—and onward into a landscape shaped by dark magic and impossible dangers. Jon-Tom’s spellsinging is unpredictable at the best of times, and the stakes here leave no room for mistakes.
This instalment tightens the tension, expands the world, and pushes the characters into deeper, darker fantasy territory while keeping Foster’s trademark humour and fast pacing.
