He appears briefly at the beginning, still very much shrouded in mystery, and then once again disappears for the rest of the book. I was excited to actually see him in action, except that we see very little of him in this book.
And now after all that build up, he finally becomes a character. The characters have remembered him, talked about him, and hypothesized about his disappearance, but we've never actually seen him (* 1). Oberon, the father to the princes and princesses of Amber (equally feared and revered, so far as we can tell by their reminiscences of him), has been hovering over this series the whole time. So, at the end of the previous book, the King Father Oberon was finally revealed. Let's just jump in with my observation about this specific book. Since we're 5 books in, I'm not going to waste any time describing the tone and style of the series. But this was originally the end of The Chronicles of Amber, and furthermore it's the end of the Fantasy Masterworksvolume that I have.)
(Actually technically this is only the end of what is now known as The Corwin Cycle, as Zelazny would later revive The Chronicles of Amber for a second series. And so at last I come to the 5th and final book in The Chronicles of Amber, following: Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicornand The Hand of Oberon.
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