Aisling

by Louise Cooper

Book Overview

Having destroyed six of the seven demons she released half century ago, Indigo embarks on her final mission, which is complicated when she loses her memory. Original. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812508084
• ISBN13: 9780812508086
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Perfect Ending

It took me YEARS to find all the books in this series and by the time I finally did I re-read all the books again before reading this last one. It's hard to rave on without spoiling the surpise but I think that by the time I opened this book I was feeling that Indigo's character had really developed in some ways over the course of the series but that in other ways she still seemed very juvenile for all that she is really old after all her adventures. I loved that this book allowed Indigo to push past these barriers. Absolutely put in the effort to get all the books for this series.

Surprising ending!

After 7 books, it's natural that one is expectating what will happen in the end. In the beginning of the book we find Indigo traveling to the Southern isles, her homeland, in hope of finding her love Feran still alive. But her ship wrecks and though she doesn't suffer grave injures to the body, she finds herself with her memories totally lost. She doesn't even remember Grimya, her faithfull companion. But in this land she doesn't remember and is now ruled by a family she doesn't even know, things threaten to go very badly indeed. For once we find the last demon waiting for her in an unexpected guise. And only the 'aisling', a magic tune, can bring back her memory, so that she can finish her mission.I liked the way the book ends, I think it's according to Ms. cooper's style and very realystical.

Fitting Conclusion to an Original Work.

I am sure that anyone who reads this series will approach the concluding book with some trepidation. Being unsure how it will be resolved. Louise actually does a wonderful job of showing how much Anghara has really changed through the years. What I found to be so incredible was that while Indigo had been the central character through the first seven books, for the majority of this book, she becomes a secobdary character, you are carried through the events with a different set of eyes. And instead of feeling alienated, I was engrossed. With this final chapter of Indigo, not only does Louise Cooper show her superior story telling abilities, but she manages to achieve a strong ending a conclusion that was as strong as the preceeding volumes had been. In my opinion the conclusion is the point where an author shows the mastery of their craft. There are so many stories that have captivated me only to fall flat at the end with an ending that didn't do justivce to the quality of the series. If you love fantasy, read the Indigo Saga. It not only has the magical, but it alsohas the human elements as well. Her series stays focused from the beginning to the end, and you as the reader are swept along with it. And what a climax, what an ending. When I read the cover, and it said "The Stunning Conclusion of The Indigo Saga" I was sceptical, for once they were right. All of Louise Cooper's work comes highly recommended, and worth the effort to find.

wow! wonderful,but "different" conclusion

I loved this whole saga immensly.I must admit,I was practically going insane wondering what the ending would be.When I finished the saga,I was not disappointed in the least.It gets tiring having read similar endings to books most of my life,and this conclusion WAS DIFFERENT! I was rather surprised,or "stunned" as you might say,at the ending. A part of me wished things were back the way they were,or close to it.But I was not upset by Indigo's decision at all.It was her fate,it seems,and this saga was far from dull.I would recommend it to any fantasy lover who is willing to be patient.

A stunning, but mildly disappointing, conclusion

When I read "Aisling", I was excited and eager. I had read the other seven volumes of the "Indigo" saga, and I had secretly envisioned my own conclusion to the series. What I had been expecting and what I read were shockingly different. I suppose that's what I get for imagining a fairly uncomplicated, and almost sweet ending to a violence-driven, complex saga. For those of you who have not read the first seven books, here is a brief synopsis: Anghara Kaligsdaughter, a spoiled, willful princess, unleashes the demons of Chaos upon her kingdom, leaving her the sole survivor of her family, and condemning her betrothed, Fenran, to a hellish limbo. As punishment, the Earth Mother makes Anghara-now-Indigo immortal, banning her from her homeland to seek and destroy the evil she has unleashed. She is given the companionship of a telepathic wolf named Grimya, and the aid of a celestial emissary. However, Indigo is haunted by the shadow of her Nemesis, and the memories of her evildoing...fifty years have now passed, and she has slain six of the seven demons. She returns to her homeland of the Southern Isles to make her peace, and reclaim her lost love, Fenran, from the purgatory in which he has been living. Unfortunately, all is not what it would seem...and Indigo, suffering from amnesia as the result of a shipwreck, finds herself the unknowing pawn of a dangerous game, that could destroy her beloved homeland...Louise Cooper is a wonderful author, and when I reflect on the tone of the series, I know that she did the final book justice. I simply didn't come away with the sense of closure that I hoped I would