Shelf Control #8: The Hand of Chaos by Weis & Hickman

Hello Lovely People!

Shelf Control is a weekly celebration of the unread books on our shelves created and hosted by Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies. Pick a book you own but haven’t read, write a post about it (suggestions: include what it’s about, why you want to read it, and when you got it), and link up!

The Hand of Chaos (Death Gate #5)
Author(s): Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
Published: 1993 (Spectra)
Length: 449 pages

Goodreads Synopsis:
The Hand of Chaos – Chaos is everywhere as the Lord of the Nexus orders his servant Haplo and the human child known as Bane to further their master’s work on Arianus, the realm of air. But their one time companion Alfred has been cast into the deadly Labyrinth. And somehow the assassin Hugh the Hand has been resurrected to complete his dark mission. More important, the evil force that Haplo and Alfred discovered on Arianus has escaped. As Haplo’s doubts about his master grow deeper, he must decide whether to obey the Lord of the Nexus or betray the powerful Patryn…and endeavor to bring peace to the universe. The Death Gate Cycle – Millennia ago a battle raged between the Sartan and the Patryn, and the Sartan sundered the world into four realms – air, fire, stone, and water – and then vanished. But now the two races have rediscovered each other through the magic of the Death Gate – and war is about to erupt anew.

How and When I got it:

I believe one of my parents bought the first book in the series for me originally and I loved the first two so much that I bought the rest of the series when I was in high school. I would absolutely have to reread the first two books as the only thing I can remember is there being rune magic and I can’t say with complete certainty that that memory is for this series.

I’m sure I’ll get to it eventually! This tiny tyrant has to grow up sometime and then I will be able to read physical books again without her sticking my bookmark in it and closing it.