To prove this, he tried to take a lantern from the shelf, only to find he could not lift it or remove his hand. Tom appeared and asked if Barda was interested in buying the lantern. He put a finger below the counter, releasing Barda's hand. Tom then showed Lief and Barda his various items, resulting in them buying a self-coiling rope, a pack of instant bread called "No Bakes," a jar of powder that cleans water called "Pure and Clear", and cushioned socks for sore feet. As they browsed, Jasmine left the shop to wait outside.
Just as Lief and Barda finished their shopping, a scar-faced man entered the shop. He drew the symbol of the Resistance in the dust on the counter and got a discount on self-coiling rope. As he wiped the symbol away, he told Tom that the sorceress Thaegan was dead. Lief also overheard the man talking with Tom about how the royal family was responsible for the land's ruin.
After the man left, Tom recognised that Lief and Barda understood the Resistance mark and gave them a jar of fire beads and a pipe that blew bubbles of light, free of charge. Lief asked for the free gift and received a flat tin box labelled " Water Eaters. Hearing a sound, Tom left quickly through the back door. Lief and Barda followed him and saw Jasmine in a pen with three white horses.
Lief asked Tom if they could buy the horses by returning all items, but Tom reminded him of the no exchanges rule. Hoping to make a deal, Jasmine showed Tom a feather, a length of plaited twine, some stones, her second dagger, and a broken-toothed comb.
Lief was about to say that none of the things had any worth, but then Jasmine upturned her bag and revealed all the gold she had taken from Grey Guards. Tom explained that the horses were already paid for, but then showed the companions three-legged animals called Muddlets. He sold them the muddlets with saddles, and warned the companions to take the left path on and upcoming fork in the road. Half an hour later, the companions came to the fork Tom had told them about.
A signpost stood in the middle, pointing towards Miller's Rise on the left and the River Broad on the right. Despite Tom's warning, the companions took the path on the right, since it led to the City of the Rats. A ways down the path, the three lost control of the Muddlets and were thrown to the ground, knocked unconscious.
Lief, Barda, and Jasmine woke up inside a large meeting hall, surrounded by people wearing black and red bodysuits. One of the red-clad people told Lief that they were in the city of Noradz. He presented himself as Reece , first Ra-Kachar of the Nine that ruled over the city. Reece insisted that the companions stay for the meal his people were about to have. Reluctantly they agreed, but decided they should leave immediately afterwards.
While serving the three, a girl, Tira , accidentally dropped a roll of bread onto the ground. She was seized and ordered to be whipped one hundred times for the crime. Before her punishment could commence, Lief said it was his fault the bread split. Lief suspected correctly that the Ra-Kacharz would not punish him because he was a stranger to the rules, though he was warned not make a mistake again. Shortly after Lief returned to the table, Filli emerged from Jasmine's shirt and sent the people into a panic.
The companions were captured while Filli was forced to flee into the city. Back in the meeting hall, Lief was commanded to pick a card labeled either Life or Death out of the sacred Cup to decide their fates.
Before he chose, Tira silently warned Lief that Reece had placed two Death cards in the Cup to ensure they died. Using the mind-clearing power of the Topaz, Lief pretended to trip and tossed one card into an open fireplace. Using the card in the Cup to determine Lief's fate, the eight Ra-Kacharz sent the companions to the dungeon. That night, Tira came to their cell to bring them food and water, which Reece had refused to bring. The companions persuaded Tira release them and show them a way out of the city.
She agreed to take them to the Hole, a garbage chute used to throw out food, though only the Ra-Kacharz could enter it and survive. She led them through the kitchens, where the companions saw two Ra-Kacharz selecting a small portion of food to be eaten on the morrow while the majority was to be thrown out. Lief, who grew up in the starved streets of Del, was appalled at the sight of good food being wasted, but Tira insisted that the Ra-Kacharz were protecting the city by disposing of impure foods.
The companions went through the door to a small room: to the left was a red door which led to the sleeping quarters of the Ra-Kacharz, and a metal grille barred the entrance to the Hole. Tira left to gather the companion's weapons, but while she was gone, Reece emerged from the red door. He grabbed Jasmine and whipped at Lief and Barda, driving them towards the edge of the Hole.
Fortunately Tira returned and hit him over the head with a frying pan. Lief hurried Tira through the kitchen door and bolted it shut as three Ra-Kacharz emerged to battle the companions. Filli arrived to cause a distraction, and the Ra-Kacharz were defeated. The companions decided to wear the Ra-Kacharz's garments to avoid suspicion. While stripping them, they realised that each one had the Shadow Lord's brand on the back of their necks.
Lief, Barda and Jasmine took Reece with them as a hostage and delved into the Hole. However, Reece was killed by the poisonous red fungi in the tunnel. They found the three remaining Ra-Kacharz loading the rejected food into a rubbish cart. Lief suggested they hide in the rubbish cart to escape the city, which Barda noted was similar to how Jarred escaped from the palace. To their surprise, the wagon stopped at Tom's shop , where a troupe of Grey Guards were waiting.
Lief was furious when Tom arrived and greeted the guards and Ra-Kacharz as if they were old friends. After Tom helped them escape from the guards, Lief accusesd him of being a traitor. Tom replied that at Tom's shop, everyone is treated equally and that he does not concern himself with taking sides.
All he cared about were good business. The three left Tom's shop and travelled to the River Broad , but the water was too wide for them to cross. While looking through his backpack, Lief found the object they had purchased from Tom's shop, including the tin of Water Eaters. He threw a pinch of crystals into the water, and to his shock, as he had been distrusting of Tom's wares at first, they grew into huge, wobbling lumps by sucking Up the water, and that spread and formed a wall that held back the water.
The space inside the wall dried up from the crystals absorbing the water. When they arrived on the plains surrounding the City of the Rats, it was sundown, so they decided to rest for the night. Lief lit a fire with the fire beads while Barda and Jasmine added water to a No Bake, which they roasted over the fire. While eating, Lief caught sight of a mass of rats coming towards them.
They ran into the river, but the rats swam after them. They used the fire beads to create a wall of fire along the shore, forcing them to stay in the water until the rats left at dawn. The rats had wrecked all their belongings except the pipe of light and Ra-Kachar clothes.
They stripped their wet clothes and put on the red clothes to protect them from the rats. On their way into the city, Lief wondered how the citizens could have failed to stop the rat plague from growing like it did.
Barda blamed the Shadow Lord, but Jasmine argued that the Shadow Lord had only ruled Deltora for sixteen years, so the fault fell on the royal family, just as Thaegan turning D'Or into Lake of Tears a hundred years ago. Lief tried to remind Jasmine that the monarchs had been deceived, but she could not understand how anyone could be so blind and accused the monarchs of hiding from their problems.
Because of this, Jasmine questioned if it was best to bring the monarchs back into power. Lief was able to remove her doubt by saying that their quest would free Deltora from tyranny, regardless of how worthy the new monarch would be. Inside the city walls, Lief used the light pipe to guide the companions through the rat-infested streets. As they neared the centre, Lief heard a voice in his mind that compelled him to the meeting hall. There he met Reeah 's, a huge serpent that identified itself as a servant of the Shadow Lord.
The crown atop of Reeah's head housed the Opal , and thanks to its abilities to see the future, Reeah knew everything about Lief.
It ordered Lief to remove the Belt of Deltora, but Lief resisted thanks to the Topaz, and thanks to the Ruby's power to cure snake venom, Reeah was wary of attacking. Lief used this time to flatter Reeah while Barda and Jasmine got into position to attack.
As Reeah revealed its past, Lief realised that the people of the City of the Rats eventually founded Noradz. However, Reeah quickly grew impatient and attacked Lief, knocking his sword high into the air and Barda unconscious with its tail. Lief threw his jar of fire beads at Reeah, but missed and lit the great hall on fire. Reeah then caught Lief in its jaws and raised him high in the air to swallow him. However, Jasmine had climbed into the rafters and caught Lief's sword which she used to slice Reeah's throat.
The fall crushed Lief, but Jasmine revived him using some of the nectar from the Lilies of Life. As the city was ravaged by the fire, Lief removed the Opal from Reeah's crown. Touching it gave him a vision of himself alone and sinking into a red desert.
He was horrified by the vision, though Barda reminded him that the Opal is the symbol of hope, and the three vowed to face the coming dangers together. The following day after retrieving the Opal, Lief, Barda, and Jasmine found themselves at a man-made canal that was shallow enough for them to cross. Jasmine spotted trees on the other side, and the companions waded their way into the water.
Before they had cross, Kree alerted them to an Ak-Baba forcing them to hide in in the canal using Lief's cloak to cover themselves. The wise fish in the river assisted them in hiding by covering them in a school until the Ak-Baba passed, although Lief and Barda were certain they were trying to drown them.
On the other side the companions found themselves in a grove of trees to rest in. When Lief awoke the next day, Jasmine revealed that she and Barda had taken nine apples from a nearby orchard.
Though Lief felt uneasy about eating stolen fruit, which also reminded him of his last day in Del, he relented. Unfortunately, they were found by the owner of the orchard, an old woman named Queen Bee. She demanded they return the apples, but the companions had eaten all but three. Furious, Queen Bee unleashed a swarm of bees that she kept under her shawl and ordered them to sting the companions to death.
Desperately, Jasmine offered the remainder of their coins as payment for the lost apples. Queen Bee accepted the bag as payment, even though it was more than enough to pay for six apples. She inquired as to where the companions came from, but upon seeing the smoking ruins of the City of the Rats, told them to go and that she never saw them.
After leaving the orchard, the companions found a highway with a horse-drawn cart and several people walking beside it. The companions hid behind some trees until the cart had passed by, and learned that the people were heading to the town of Rithmere. They decided to follow the cart, and Lief found a flier on the road advertising the Rithmere Games , which awarded one hundred gold coins to every finalist and one thousand gold coins to the champion.
The companions decided to join the Games to make up for the money they lost. Shortly after arriving in Rithmere, the companions ran into a man named Ferdinand.
He offered to buy Kree from Jasmine to replace the bird needed to operate his game, Beat the Bird, but she refused. Instead, the companions agreed to lend Ferdinand to Kree for thirty spins in exchange for one silver coin. Many people rushed over to play, and due to the success of the first two customers Lief was tempted to use their coin to play. Barda objected, as it was a game of luck and they could wind up with nothing but a wooden bird. After the thirtieth turn Ferdinand tried to go back on the deal and keep Kree, who retaliated by revealing that Ferdinand was controlling the wheel through the use of a pedal.
Ferdinand ran off as the mob changed after him, leaving the coins that had fallen off the table sheet for the crowd. The companions attempted to take some of the coins, but only a wooden bird remained, which Jasmine took for herself.
She accepted their one silver coin as payment and then asked for their names and town. She then weighed the companions and measured their heights, and wrote all the details down in her book.
The wristbands showed the companions' fake names, their weight and height. Mother Brightly advised them to always wear the bands, since they marked them as official competitors, showed their special talent, and entitled them to food, drink, and entrance to the Rithmere Games. Mother Brightly then collected the silver coin and gave the companions the key to room She then took the three companions to the dining hall, where Lief recognised Joanna and Orwen , two people they overheard on the road to Rithmere, and the scar-faced man they had encountered in Tom's shop.
Before she left, Lief asked Mother Brightly which events he and his friends should compete in. The innkeeper responded that nobody knows who they will fight, but the most entertaining fights are those between competitors of varying strengths. She happily described last year's final fight, where the loser's leg was smashed to pieces and amputated, before trotting out of the room. Lief suggested that, given the new dangers, they should leave the games.
After eating dinner they tried to escape in the night, but were stopped by a locked door. Orwen confronted them and explained that Games competitors had to compete once they were registered.
Seeing no other option, the companions decided to stay the night in their room and find a way out of the competition in the morning. As they walked to their room, the light went out and someone attacked them. Though Jasmine struck their attacker with her second dagger, they vanished and made off with the companions' room key, and left behind a sinister note.
In the morning, Lief, Barda and Jasmine found themselves locked in their room. They hung one of the bedspreads out the window to attract Mother Brightly's attention, and she arrived to unlock the door. In the arena, they found the scar-faced man, identified as Doom, was wearing a cloth around his neck — possibly to cover a wound from Jasmine's dagger.
After the preliminary rounds, the eight remaining finalists were Lief, Barda, Jasmine, Doom, Joanna, Orwen, a woman called Neridah the Swift, and a savage man named Glock. The three companions discuss what they should do if they were forced to fight each other. Lief and Jasmine suggested faking a loss, but Barda said that it would be dishonourable.
This is supported by Mother Brightly, who warns everyone at dinner that the bloodthirsty crowd has been known to turn on fighters who did not perform well. The morning of the semifinals, Lief was paired with Neridah. Her gentle appearance and fear caused Lief to lower his guard and sympathies with her, but when the match began, Neridah used his hesitation to knock him onto his back.
Fueled by anger, Lief regained his footing and threw Neridah to the ground. She hit the ground on one arm, and again showed fear, which caused Lief to hesitate. Neridah seized the opportunity to grab Lief's ankle and topple him, winning the match. In the end, Neridah, Glock, Jasmine, and Doom remained as finalists.
Lief and Barda were in recovery during the finals, so they missed Jasmine's victory over Doom. Once recovered, Lief, Barda, and Jasmine were eager to leave Rithmere, but at Mother Brightly's insistence they purchased supplies from her store and ate a meal in the dining hall before leaving. Lief felt as if something was wrong, or someone was spying on them, but could find no explanation for his suspicion. Mother Brightly showed them a secret passageway out of the inn, where they were ambushed and knocked out.
Lief woke bound and gagged in the back of a cart, without any of his possessions save for the Belt of Deltora. Barda and Jasmine were with him, bound and gagged as well. The captors, two Grey Guards, discussed the fate that awaited their prisoners, and Lief realised that the Rithmere Games were part of a Shadow Lord plot to find the best Deltoran fighters and make them fight in the Shadow Arena for entertainment.
After several hours of travelling, the Grey Guards made camp for the night and gave Lief, Barda and Jasmine some food and rudimentary shelter from the rain. Lief was surprised to hear the Guards mention they had passed the Shifting Sands an hour before they stopped to rest. Though the Guards fell asleep almost instantly, the cmpanions could do nothing to escape their heavy chains. They had almost given up on escape when Doom arrived and freed them.
Doom freed the companions and brought them to a cave, in which he had already hidden their packs and weapons. Doom told the companions he was the leader of Deltora's resistance , and he had been hearing rumours about a boy, a man, and a wild girl with a black bird undoing the Shadow Lord's evil. He requested that the three of them join the resistance, but the companions unanimously turned him down, since they could not trust him. Hurt by their refusal, Doom left.
On foot, the companions reach the walls of the Shifting Sands, where they find a faded warning stone speaking of the dangers within. They passed the stone and journeyed into the sands. Lief recognised the Sands as the place in his vision and began to worry that he would end up alone.
Lief heard two voices approaching and hid himself, Barda, and Jasmine underneath his cloak. They watched as their Grey Guard captors searched the sands for them, disturbing a Sand Beast lurking nearby. It killed and ate both guards, scattering their belongings. After the Beast left, the companions searched the Guards' belongings and collected their blisters and clubs. The coins and the Champion medal the Guards carried were nowhere to be found. In their place were circular marks in the sand.
Lief kicked the marks away, and the Sand retaliated with a sandstorm. The storm calmed, leaving behind an imprint of Jasmine's dagger. Lief asks Jasmine if she lost it, and she confirms she did.
Lief touches the Topaz and his mind clears. He understands that the Sand is alive, and is eager to take the Belt from him. As night fell, Lief suggested that they should use rope to tie themselves together, despite Barda and Jasmine's protests. When they stopped to rest, Barda and Jasmine untied themselves and Jasmine lit a fire. The fire enraged the Sands and it caused another earthquake and sandstorm. The three were scattered in the upheaval.
Lief wandered alone for hours, drawn to the Centre, until he fell unconscious from exhaustion. He had a dream that he was back in Del with his friends, who were being stung by swarms of bees. In the dream, Queen Bee warned him to go softly and use smoke, not fire. Lief wakes from his dream when Kree finds him, leading Jasmine and Barda to him. Using blisters, Barda drives off a Sand Beast that had been stalking Lief. Lief explains to Barda and Jasmine the riddle of the Shifting Sands.
The Sands themselves were actually the remains of a tiny species of insect collectively known as the Hive. The living drones attack in force if they feel their home is threatened, but will calm down if given tribute, such as weapons and gold. With this knowledge, Lief tells the others to head to the centre of the Sands. They arrived at the entrance to the Hive, where Lief descended down on a rope armed only with a smoking torch.
Inside the Hive he discovered millions of the swarming insects gathered around a massive pyramid of bones and treasures, which Lief assumed was used to guard the queen. The smoke calmed the Hive and prevented the warriors from stinging him as he searched for the fourth gem, the Lapis Lazuli. With help from the Opal, Lief was able to find the Lapis Lazuli. Finding that the gemstone suported the hive's structure, when he removed it he replaced it with the wooden bird Jasmine had taken from Ferdinand.
However, this caused the tower to sway and awoke the Hive. Lief was barely able to escape being swarmed, but he did manage to retrieve Jasmine's dagger. Once outside, Lief added the Lapis Lazuli to the Belt. The Lapis allowed the companions safe passage out of the Sands. On their way to Dread Mountain, Lief, Barda, and Jasmine discovered a hidden spring surrounded by a grove of pale trees. Though the spring had a warning sign that warned against those of evil hearts drinking the water, the companions drank without issue and quickly fell asleep Lief had a lucid dream of his home ; it was destroyed and bore the brand of the Shadow Lord on its gate.
Lief was awoken by the sound of something drinking from the spring. Going to investigate, he discovered a young Kin named Prin and befriended her. The two decided to play a game of hide and find, but Prin is captured by two Grey Guards in pursuit of Glock, Neridah and Doom. Barda and Jasmine woke up and tried to leave with Lief, but he convinced them to stay and try to rescue Prin. They were spotted when Lief tried to get Prin out of the bag she was tossed into, but by that point the Guards had drunk water from the spring and, because of their evil will, were transformed into pale trees identical to all others in the grove.
The other Kin were awakened and met Lief and his companions. Lief learned, to his horror, that the Dreaming Spring caused those who drink of its waters to dream of other people and places and see what was actually transpiring, visiting them in spirit form.
Lief briefly became determined to return home, but was convinced by Barda that they had to resume their quest, which prompted them to approach the Kin for aid in reaching Dread Mountain. Three Kin named Merin , Bruna and Ailsa agreed to carry the trio, while Prin, much to her dismay, was forbidden from going. Before departing, Lief drank from the Dreaming Spring and saw his father in prison at the mercy of Fallow , a servant of the Shadow Lord who suspected that Lief was part of a conspiracy against his master.
The company soon made its way to Kinrest , where the companions were startled to find the grave of Doom of the Hills , whose name was used by the leader of the Resistance whom they encountered previously, leading them to wonder at his true identity. The group travelled on to Dread Mountain where, after narrowly avoiding an attack by the Kin's old enemies the Dread Gnomes , they landEd in a heavily forested region and the Kin took their leave of Lief's party.
Much to their shock, Prin then arrived and was shot by one of the Dread Gnomes with a poisoned arrow, forcing Jasmine to use the last of the nectar of the Lilies of Life to save her. The group were subsequently attacked by a Vraal , a savage creature from the Shadowlands, but it was driven off by Prin using purple moss that burned those it touched.
After discovering a message written in blood, the group came across an abandoned gnome rest before making their way to the gate of the gnome stronghold, where they narrowly avoided falling into a deadly booby trap. Making their way into the Mountain's interior, they were then caught in another trap and found themselves sealed in a tunnel with what appeared to be a mirror. Using Dreaming Spring water in their water bottles, the companions spied on the Gnomes and made a startling discovery: the Dread Gnomes were slaves to a massive Ooze Toad named Gellick , who not only provided the Gnomes poison for their arrows but also wore the Emerald from the Belt of Deltora in his brow.
Having learned that the Dread Gnomes had been spying on them, the companions realised that the mirror in the tunnel was in fact a one-way glass that doubled as a window; breaking it, they escaped only to be trapped by the Gnomes, with Jasmine being shot with a poison arrow. Fortunately, the poison-countering power of the Ruby healed her, and the apparent miracle was enough to convince the weary Dread Gnomes to side with them.
Accompanied by Ri-Nan , Fa-Glin and Gla-Thon , the companions made their way into Gellick's cavern and prepared to use a supply of blisters they had acquired in the Shifting Sands to kill the creature.
However, Ri-Nan betrayed them in an effort to advance his own standing only to be killed by Gellick's poison, which proved to be the same substance contained in the blisters; as part of their servitude, the Dread Gnomes had been unknowingly providing it to the Shadow Lord. Forced into hiding, Lief was prepared to die when he was struck by inspiration and hurled his opened water bottle into Gellick's mouth, causing the toad to be transformed into a tree. The Dread Gnomes, now freed, soon heeded Lief's counsel to welcome the returning Kin back with open arms, forming an alliance with their former prey to share the Mountain and deceive the Shadow Lord.
Firmly resolved to complete the quest for the sake of his parents and all others harmed by the Shadow Lord's evil, Lief and his comrades pressed on in their journey.
While on their way to the Maze of the Beast , Lief and his companions ran across a pair of young girls named Marie and Ida who were drowning in a river. They attempted to save the pair only for Ida to be shot with an arrow; Lief attacked her assailant only to be informed by the archer that the girls were Ols. Marie then transformed into a monstrous form and attempted to kill Barda, but the companions were able to destroy her.
Jasmine then recognised the archer as Dain , a member of Doom's Resistance , and due to his sustaining injuries at Lief's hands they offered to help him reach the nearest resistance stronghold. Along the way, Dain voiced his belief that the trio were travelling to the city of Tora , and also explained the nature of Ols to the companions.
Dain's injuries eventually rendered him unconscious as the group arrived at the stronghold, where they found a slip of paper and were then challenged by guards who threatened to kill them if they could not provide the password. Having gained insight into the Resistance's methods through a disguised jar of Queen Bee Honey , Lief deciphered the message on the slip of paper as providing the password, which allowed them into the stronghold.
Unfortunately, they ran afoul of Barda's old acquaintance Jinks , a former palace acrobat who liked to cause trouble, and their old enemies Glock and Neridah. Doom soon arrived and had the trio imprisoned for three days in the testing room, a chamber designed to allow Resistance members to identify Ols hiding in their midst. However, after the period had passed, Dain covertly released them and asked to join them on their journey to Tora, but was soon informed that it was not their true destination.
The companions decided to bring Dain along anyway, but Jasmine then left the group with Kree and Filli due to her being the most conspicuous member of the party. Lief and the other two travelled on for some time, running into trouble before reaching the village of Where Waters Meet , which had been ransacked by Pirates and abandoned.
They then met Steven , son of Queen Bee and a friend to the resistance, and learned from Dain of his monstrous brother Nevets who usually remained within Steven. Eventually the trio booked passage on the River Queen to travel towards the coast and the Maze, and found Jasmine in disguise among the other passengers. The ship was attacked during the night by pirates, and the Belt, which Barda and Lief had disguised inside a leather belt, was stolen along with Lief's other possessions, while Dain was abducted and Barda fell overboard.
Put ashore on the orders of the captain after one of the other passengers was revealed to be an Ol and attacked, Jasmine and Lief were unexpectedly joined by Barda, who apparently survived the River Tor 's dangerous leeches. The trio maed their way to the coast and learned that the pirates were on their way to the Maze as well, and later found evidence that indicated that they had secured the gem from the Maze.
However, Barda was then revealed to be another Ol when the real Barda returned and killed his imitator, who arranged this scheme to make Lief and Jasmine lose hope; unfortunately, Lief was soon taken captive by the pirates. Held prisoner aboard ship, they were taken to the Maze of Beast and separated from Dain yet again, though fortunately Lief was able to recover the Belt with aid from a Polypan due to having accidentally bought some Polypan gum from Steven.
The three were then deposited in the Maze, where they were forced to confront the monstrous Glus ; through clever thinking they were able to escape and reclaim Lief's other belongings after several pirates were killed by a blowhole near the Maze. Having departed the coast after escaping the Maze of the Beast, Lief and his companions made their way inland up the River Tor , only to find their efforts to cross the river in order to progress towards the Valley of the Lost blocked at every turn.
Unexpectedly, they came across the pirates' ship and were reunited with Dain and the polypan, only for the latter to abandon them during a pouring rainstorm after it reached a dock. The following morning they awoke to find that the floods caused by the rain had filled an old lake bed, on the shore of which they found Tora, which they entered only to find it abandoned. They then found the foundation stone at the city's heart cracked, a sign that the Torans broke their ancient vow to the kings of Deltora, and also what prompted their foolhardy act: a letter from King Endon requesting shelter after he fled Del.
Unfortunately, the vow itself stated that the Torans would be taken out of their city in the event that they broke it, a warning that they failed to heed. Dain went into unexpected shock, and the companions realised that Tora was protected by magic that prevented evil passions from existing within the city's walls. Leaving the city, they were surprised by the arrival of Doom and Neridah; after a tense confrontation, they convinced Doom to enter Tora as a sign that they should trust him.
Rate this book. Lief, Barda, and Jasmine have finally retrieved all the gems of the Belt of Deltora and now, in their final step towards overthrowing the Shadow Lord, they must find the true heir to the kingdom's throne. Fantasy Fiction Adventure Childrens More Details. Emily Rodda books 1, followers. Search review text.
Shadowlord awaits. I swear this book is something else! I cried a lot. I just used that to show the awe in this book. I couldn't predict the ending. Sara Kamjou. Fatima difarko. Ahmad Sharabiani. With the prior 7 books so great I must admit I was prepared for a little bit of a let down in this final book.
I couldn't see any way she could top there other books. But I was truly surprise and would give this one a six if I could. Emily Rodda did in fact come through with a fabulous ending and one I did not expect.
And the suspense was there all the way until the end and the final secret was all it should have been and more. This book made you want to read until you finish it. This is an adventure book. I recommend this book to anyone who like adventure story. Life lesson is over come any problem even when all seen lost.
This is one of the books that you'll never get bored with. If you really like this book then you should read all seven of the Deltora Quest book. You will go on a journey with Lief, Barda, and Jasmine to restore the magical Belt of Deltora and find all the lost gems. It is one gem of a book. Thank you for sharing this page with a friend! Which of your works would you like to tell your friends about?
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