The Power that Preserves
- 573
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Power that Preserves” ends the first Thomas Covenant trilogy on a dark, demanding note, with an antihero sunk in self-disgust. Some readers single out the battle for Revelstone and Mhoram’s storyline while finding Covenant’s self-pity hard to bear and the conclusion messy; others mainly feel it slows towards the end. It is for readers who can stay with a deeply flawed hero through more than five hundred pages.
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About the book
The Power that Preserves is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen R. Donaldson, the final book of the first trilogy of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series. It is followed by The Wounded Land, which begins the second trilogy.
Reading order · The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Full order & progress →- Lord Foul's BaneStart here
7.27.2 / 10 - The Illearth War
7.97.9 / 10 - The Power that PreservesThis book
8.08.0 / 10 - The Wounded Land
7.97.9 / 10 - The One Tree
7.97.9 / 10 - White Gold Wielder
7.97.9 / 10 - The Runes of the Earth
–Not ranked yet - Fatal Revenant
–Not ranked yet - Against All Things Ending
–Not ranked yet - The Last Dark
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 102 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 41% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 102 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Power that Preserves?
It has 573 pages — longer than 56% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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