By Tamora Pierce
Simon Pulse, 1996
Narrated by Tamora Pierce and Full Cast Audio
Genre
High Fantasy
Awards
None Known
Review
Daine, a young girl with wild magic (she can speak with animals and shape-shift) and Numair (a highly skilled mage) return for this conclusion to the Immortals quartet. While attempting to help the monarchy of Tortall, Daine and Numair find themselves in a battle they cannot win against a group of Immortals, only to find themselves pulled harshly into the Divine Realms. Here Daine meets her mother for the first time since she was killed, finding she is now a minor Goddess, the Green Woman. Daine also discovers who her father is, Weiryn, the minor Northern God of the Hunt. In the Divine Realms, Daine and Numair learn about the battle of the greater gods with their sister, Uusoae, the queen of Chaos. They discover she has unlawfully aligned herself with an Immortal to gain more power from the war raging in the human realm so she can finally break out of her Chaos dimension and begin taking over all the realms. Traveling back to the human realm requires Daine and Numair to take a treacherous journey to the Dragon Realm and convince these majestic yet stubborn beings to take them back before it's too late. Along the way, a romance blossoms between the wild mage and master mage. A wonderful conclusion to this quartet, The Reals of the Gods also provides plenty of background information for those readers who are just discovering the amazing worlds of Tortall and beyond.
Opinion
I loved this book, though many of the characters weren't as fleshed out as I'd like to have seen them. I think this is mainly because this is a closing book to a series where most of these characters were already explored. I found the majority of the audiobook cast to be wonderful, though I found the author herself narrated in a somewhat jerky, over-enunciated manor that was often distracting.
Ideas
This is a great series for anyone who knows they enjoy fantasy - there's really no way around encountering it here! This may be a good book for a reader to try if they are unsure of how they feel about high fantasy. The lower reading level appropriate for middle school readers makes it easy to focus on all the fantastical creatures and abilities the world holds, giving this genre a true opportunity to be experience rather than muddled through.
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