Voice of the Gods: Age of the Five Gods Trilogy #3, The (Age of the Five Trilogy)

This is the third book in the Age of the Five Trilogy and it was a great finish. I really enjoyed the whole series - so much so that I am now reading (and enjoying) the Black Magician Trilogy. The character developement is excellent. I really came to care for the characters. The magic is interesting and has a few different twists to it. I also really liked the pace with enough action to keep it exciting but balanced with romance and interesting personal growth on the characters parts. I did not give it 5 stars because it is a bit predictable but overall an excellent factasy and a lot of fun to read.

One of the best fantasy trilogies i have read in years, and i have read hundreds. Canavan is able to make us care about the characters, even the "bad guys" and her stories are interesting-- you want to hear what she has to say next. Add to this that she is able to surprise me with out the surprises being at all contrived, and you have AMAZING fantasy!

I should start by saying I began reading this trilogy with high hopes. I *loved* the Black Magician Trilogy and I figured an author who could keep me that entertained knew what she was doing.The first two books weren't superb, but kept me interested enough to finish them...and by the time I got to the end of the second book, well, of COURSE I had to finish the series! Unfortunately, this is one of those cases where the anticipation is better than the reality.I'm going to complain now, so if you don't want spoilers you might want to skip to my last paragraph. Still, I'll try to stay as vague as I can.One of my issues is one that other reviewers have brought up as well: too many prior characters are dropped and never heard from again. Naturally, I wouldn't have wanted Canavan to force an old character into the storyline without reason, but you have to wonder why we had to spend so much time in the first two books getting to know these characters only to find out that they aren't pivotal to the ending. The lead-up implied that they'd be involved and they weren't. And that's disappointing.Then there are characters that didn't get the treatment they deserved. Ella seemed like she was plunked into the story to be a person we were supposed to dislike, but wouldn't it have been interesting to find out what made her such a fanatic? And at least in the beginning of the series, you got the impression that despite the other whites' firm convictions, they could at least think for themselves. But by the last book, everyone seems to lose that ability and instead they all just parrot the gods' laws. Sorry, but that's not a position I can respect in anyone, fictional or not. I would have really liked, too, to see the other immortals fleshed out a little more.(Seriously, my favorite character throughout the series - which was only reinforced by this last book - was Mischief. He's a clever little booger who was cute and playful and perpetually disappointed in how boring his Mommy is. I totally want a veez now.)The end of the book? Lame. There's a climax - which should have been a whole lot more climactic - that leaves the priest-y types all standing around and blinking, the immortals patting themselves on the back and making a promise to keep in touch, and then all that's left is a poor epilogue that doesn't really give any closure. So WHAT HAPPENED to everyone?? No Juran weeping into his circlet? Rian's not addicted to hookers and smack? So how long did Auraya lead Mirar on, anyway?Don't get me wrong, the book (and really, the whole series) wasn't terrible. It did keep me interested. There were a couple of unexpected twists. I did want to find out what happened to everyone. If you've read the first two books, you really do have to read the third one. It's just too bad that I finished feeling dissatisfied. I've done a lot of bitching here, but this book wasn't exactly bad, hence my three-star rating. It was just...beige. And beige isn't good enough when the story has such potential.

This book is a fascinating combination of a wonderful story and an interesting analysis of religion and its affects on people! It has it all!

This first book took a while to get going, but she wove a web of this intricate world down to the description of each individual character. At first I though it was going to drag, but slowly the characters started popping up to say hi, and I am glad I finished the book - now to book 2.

Great book. Trudi Canavan is incredible and you should give her a try.

Love Trudi Canavan's writing style. Very similar style to the Magician Trilogy, similar story elements also. All in All, a good buy that eats up time reading, not boring, but not overly stimulating either, a perfect timekiller.

One of my very favorite writers. Would recommend her to anyone who loves Fantasy!

SPOILER FREEIt’s difficult to review the final book in a trilogy without giving away any spoilers, so I will do my best to summarize!Trudi Canavan ties up the loose ends of The Age of Five Trilogy in Voice of The Gods. All the secrets and mysteries that have been hinted at and explored in the previous two entries finally come together. Some are satisfying, others aren’t quite what I was expecting.THE SECRETS BEHIND THE WILDS AND THE GODS ARE MY FAVOURITE PART OF THIS BOOKThe whole series – and the ending of Voice of the Gods was almost perfect. I would have liked to see more, to be honest. Not a new book or anything, but more than the epilogue we were left with.If you have enjoyed Priestess of the White and Last of the Wilds, then you will love this book because it brings everything together.The characters have all finally grown and evolved into driven, independent people, rather than going along with what’s been happening around them (not naming names for the specifics of that point).Voice of the Gods is an exciting finale and I’m sad that we will see no more of this world, but this story satisfyingly ends at a point that doesn’t leave too much more to be answered.Overall, this is one of my favourite fantasy trilogies, and one I think should be more mainstream. More people need to read and enjoy these books!

So i read the trilogy, the first book didn't really hook me,but, i don't like to leave things unfinished.Now, i like the universe the author has created. It's a rich interesting world full of magic, religion and history.Some of the characters are deep and evolving through the story. Others are introduced, get a load of chapters and then dissapear with little to no signnificance on the greater narrative.The third book derals with the subject of sexual violence and it seems so completely unecesary to the story it feels like it was just thrown in there to try and make things more interesting.I was dissapointed that the great revelation at the end was something that you can easily figuere out about halfway through book 1, and then all theswe characters you've spent hundreds of pages getting to know and investing in just walk off, and that's it.And that the main thing about this trilogy for me, NOTHING really happens. They're a relaxing read but otherwise dull.

I have read and re-read Trudi Canavan's Black Magician Trilogy a couple of times, which for me is a marker of whether a book works or not.I may at some point return to this trilogy, but only for the first two books. This final installment is, I'm afraid, a disappointment.The characters have become flat and two-dimensional, their emotions appear forced and the ending contrived.I do not like discussing the plot in a review, because ultimately it is for the readers themselves to find out what the author has in store for us as we wander the routes of their creation.In "Voice" Canavan appears to have come to a crossroads and lost the way, which is a pity. I hope subsequent works improve, but as it stands I will not be waiting impatiently for her next book.Read it, if only to know how the story ends, but don't expect to be blown away.

This is the 3rd and final book in the Age of Five series and I must say I was not dissapointed.I loved the first book book which entered us into the world of Auraya and I loved the second book as it was great for character development but not much of the story seemed to happen in this book. (not that im complaining).The 3rd book brought the story to a fantastic end. We got to explore some of the new characters deeper and though i suspected what the ending would be it was a fantastic way to end the series =)I wont go into detail about what happens in case i ruin the plot! eiik!brilliant work though by trudibrilliant

Can't add much to the very in-depth reviews on here, but I was somewhat disappointed with this end to the Voice of the Gods series - I thought it was a little too rushed, and what should have been a twist ending was (to me) quite obvious and had occurred to me far earlier on in the series!I wish that instead this had been a four-part series, or a different ending envisaged. However, for most of the book I was enjoying myself, and perhaps Trudi will revisit this world again.