The Courts of Chaos - Book Five of The Chronicles of Amber

The Courts of Chaos, it is all within the title. As the Corwin cycle of the series comes to a close, it opens the story up for the Merlin cycle to continue. Within the Courts of Chaos, the world is being destroyed, as Corwin races to create a new pattern and save his precious Amber; trouble finds him.

Corwin has come full circle, from everything that happened in book one all the way up to book five. It all makes sense to him. He knows who was involved in it all. He figures out that his family is even more devious than he thought they were, as one of them fakes their death. Another continues to grow mad and the others are lost in a tangle of mischief.

As the book ends, Corwin has been met up with Merlin and takes him to walk the pattern he has created off in Shadow and finally understands his own father.

The Hand of Oberon - Book Four of The Chronicles of Amber

The Hand of Oberon is book four of The Chronicles of Amber.

This series has really taken me by surprise, especially since it was written years ago. If you think of FaceTime that we have these days using iPads / iPhones to communicate and see one another. This book has something similar. Using the trumps with each family members picture embedded on it, they are able to communicate with one another. Another thing they can do that we can't "yet". They are able to reach their hand in and pull the other person through to their location. They have used this to save one another or help each other reach a location faster.

The book really took me by surprise near the end of the book as things came to a real understanding. Once you have opened up the page or started listening to the book, you will find yourself lost within the world of the Amberites.

- Constant Read