The Road to Hell

Multiverse, Book 3

De: Joelle Presby, David Weber

Narrado por: Mark Boyett

Entry number three in the popular Hell's Gate series by 28-time New York Times best-selling author David Weber and Joelle Presby.

The war between magically gifted Arcana and psionically talented Sharona continues to rage. The dragon-borne Arcanan assault across five universes has been halted at Fort Salby by a desperate defense, but at atrocious cost. One of those costs was the life of Crown Prince Janaki, heir to the newly created Sharonian Empire, who went knowingly to his death in the tradition expected of the House of Calirath. And another price will be the sacrifice of his younger sister, Grand Imperial Princess Andrin, now heir of Sharona, for the accords creating the Sharonian Empire require the marriage of the heir to the Crown to wed a Uromathian prince.

Andrin bears her family's Talent, the Glimpses, which show flashes of events yet to come. She knows the accords must be secured...and, like her brother, she will pay any price, make any sacrifice for her duty to her people.

Sharona's soldiers dig in, facing the Arcanans in a tense standoff that cannot last long. Both sides continue rushing reinforcements toward the front, but how do armies fight wars when they can reach one another only through the portals that join the universes? And far, far behind the front, carried by dragons, a young Voice name Shaylar and her husband, Jathmar, hurtle deeper and deeper into Arcanan captivity, their only protection the fierce personal honor of the Andaran officer whose men massacred all of their companions in the horrendous misunderstanding that began the entire conflict.

Men and women of honor on both sides must grapple with the terrible costs and deadly secrets of the spreading cataclysm, and in the shadows, those who will balk at neither treason nor murder drive the conspiracies that pour fuel into the furnace. The stakes are high, and the pieces are in motion, but there are factors known not even to the conspirators, and not even a Calirath can Glimpse the final outcome.

©2016 Words of Weber & Joelle Presby (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

Story needs to be finished!

I have read the books twice and now the audible version. My biggest question is where the heck is fourth book already????? It’s been waaay tooo long, and it can’t end with such blatant cliffhangers!!!

wrong order of chapters

the book started on chapter 19... finished then started on chapter 1... odd. don't know if it was downloaded wrong or what.

Hope this was a bad down load.

Hope this was a bad down load. Did re download . The story was great but the last book was not in order. The last book was broken into three sections and then scrambled

Great but incomplete.

Fascinating story, just wish they had written follow-on books to finish it. Story line leaves to many plots unresolved.

I'll be listening again, all three books...

Larry here:
When I listened to first of this story set my review praised both writing, and praise for the skill of the readers. What I found a distracting challenge was the place, and person names. I was just too slow to keep everything straight. At times I was at a loss of what side of the conflict I being read to about.
Okay, I've finished all the chapters, and now I'm doing fine, in fact I'm intending to do it all again with who's who in my head. Truely this is a sterling story, read it, but make notes from the git go to keep the names, places, and titles in your mind as you listen; or perhaps your mind is more able than mine has become.
Intelligent writing, by good story tellers, but my mind is getting slow with my 70 years. So sad, too bad for Larry.

Great Worldbuilding

I hope their are future books in this series. The worldbuilding and character development were excellent. The story was marvelous and supported by all the important literary devices.

Great story and Performance

I loved it and found it difficult to put the book down. I love the narrator because of his ability to change his voice for each of the characters. I think the book should have been a little shorter by eliminating some of the many minor details. I found my attention driftting from time to time but I rewound it sevral times to get every drop. All in all I still love it and give it 5 stars.

Very good overall

If you could sum up The Road to Hell in three words, what would they be?

Seems to get caught up in minor details....but they may be important later...for some unknown (for now) reason a calendar reference was introduced using 3 separate systems but the multiverse only has 2 civilizations....if it's a hint of more to come then it seems a bit premature.....but I still enjoyed the book and await the next installment.

wonderful story, horrible execution by audible

the story is great.

the conversion to audible was done horribly. you cannot listen to the one file as it starts towards the end of the book. you have to change audible settings to separate it into smaller files, and then start listening to part one. audible has known about the issue for months and not fixed it.

Audible is idiotic

Loved it. Can't wait for more in series. Said what I wanted, why do I need to put up a large review ?