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Fighting Fantasy Novels #7
Demonlord
208 pages, Paperback
Published March 3, 1994
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Ian Livingstone
131 books164 followersSir Ian Livingstone is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur. Along with Steve Jackson, he is the co-founder of the Fighting Fantasy series of role-playing gamebooks, and the author of many books within that series. He co-founded Games Workshop in 1975 and helped create Eidos Interactive as executive chairman of Eidos Plc in 1995.
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February 23, 2022
WARNING - there's a reason this semblance of a review has a spoiler tag. ;) Most spoilers are relatively harmless in the scheme of things but this one would be harmful to anyone who actually wanted to read this book. Right, now onto the review...
15/12/12. I'm writing this at past midnight on the 15th, but I finished my re-read of this book (and thus the entire series) on 14/12/12. It was just as sad as I remembered, losing my favourite character and another brilliant one too. But I do like how the book leaves us with hope that the fallen may be resurrected somehow, sometime, in an unknown future. I know, not very reassuring, but you know, it gives the reader something to speculate on and eases the sense of loss a little. ;)
I wanted to mention that I hadn't remembered that Shebbeneth only appeared in book 4, and in fact as the book wore on I was starting to wonder if I had imagined her existence in the Zagorverse entirely. Maybe she was in fact a character from some other book and I'd got my wires crossed somehow? But no, trusty Shebbeneth turned up in the end. I forgot she was a ghost basically. Yet she was a very helpful ghost, way more than Remstar as a ghost was! I kind of forgot that Anvar found a bunch of his people in the end and became their chieftan. I also forgot that Dahlver was along for most of the adventures in this book, for some reason.
The descriptions of the last battle were quite epic, and I could really picture them in my mind.
I guess my final word is that I still love this series, even if I rolled my eyes a lot more frequently during this reread due to the presence of many ends to chapters that went something like this: "He had no idea how wrong he was" or "She had made the wrong choice." I still love Zagor, and I guess I always will. It's part of the very fabric of my being, after all!
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That's the end of the review proper(ish), but now I will talk a little more about our former obsession with the Zagorverse:
Yeah, I'm quite serious when I say my friend and I were DEVASTATED when we read the scene near the end with certain characters' demises, for the first time(s) back in high school. We were so upset, in fact, that we decided to pretend it hadn't happened. This is where we started writing what we did not know at the time was called fan fiction, but it wasn't really full blown stories from the Zagorverse. Rather it was silly things like a makeshift Amarillian popular magazine with interviews with the characters, gig reviews for the "Huge Day Out" (Amarillia's version of the Australian/NZ Big Day Out music festival ;)), and so on. In our fantasy world built upon our experiences of reading Zagor, we made Dahlver an evil bitch, which of course she was not in the stories. We made Jallarial and Braxus a couple, one Dahlver was always trying to break up. haha. I think we even made it so Stubble and Anvar were a couple. We also harped on and on about Shekiness and Shebbeneth.
Basically we were obsessed and I still harbour fond memories of those extremely nerdy days. Still, I'm glad I've got slightly more of a life nowadays than I did back then!
*****
21/09/11: I can't review this properly right now as it needs a serious re-read. Suffice it to say though that it's part of the series I adored as a 13-14 year old, and it still holds a soft spot in my heart.
15/12/12. I'm writing this at past midnight on the 15th, but I finished my re-read of this book (and thus the entire series) on 14/12/12. It was just as sad as I remembered, losing my favourite character and another brilliant one too. But I do like how the book leaves us with hope that the fallen may be resurrected somehow, sometime, in an unknown future. I know, not very reassuring, but you know, it gives the reader something to speculate on and eases the sense of loss a little. ;)
I wanted to mention that I hadn't remembered that Shebbeneth only appeared in book 4, and in fact as the book wore on I was starting to wonder if I had imagined her existence in the Zagorverse entirely. Maybe she was in fact a character from some other book and I'd got my wires crossed somehow? But no, trusty Shebbeneth turned up in the end. I forgot she was a ghost basically. Yet she was a very helpful ghost, way more than Remstar as a ghost was! I kind of forgot that Anvar found a bunch of his people in the end and became their chieftan. I also forgot that Dahlver was along for most of the adventures in this book, for some reason.
The descriptions of the last battle were quite epic, and I could really picture them in my mind.
I guess my final word is that I still love this series, even if I rolled my eyes a lot more frequently during this reread due to the presence of many ends to chapters that went something like this: "He had no idea how wrong he was" or "She had made the wrong choice." I still love Zagor, and I guess I always will. It's part of the very fabric of my being, after all!
----
That's the end of the review proper(ish), but now I will talk a little more about our former obsession with the Zagorverse:
Yeah, I'm quite serious when I say my friend and I were DEVASTATED when we read the scene near the end with certain characters' demises, for the first time(s) back in high school. We were so upset, in fact, that we decided to pretend it hadn't happened. This is where we started writing what we did not know at the time was called fan fiction, but it wasn't really full blown stories from the Zagorverse. Rather it was silly things like a makeshift Amarillian popular magazine with interviews with the characters, gig reviews for the "Huge Day Out" (Amarillia's version of the Australian/NZ Big Day Out music festival ;)), and so on. In our fantasy world built upon our experiences of reading Zagor, we made Dahlver an evil bitch, which of course she was not in the stories. We made Jallarial and Braxus a couple, one Dahlver was always trying to break up. haha. I think we even made it so Stubble and Anvar were a couple. We also harped on and on about Shekiness and Shebbeneth.
Basically we were obsessed and I still harbour fond memories of those extremely nerdy days. Still, I'm glad I've got slightly more of a life nowadays than I did back then!
*****
21/09/11: I can't review this properly right now as it needs a serious re-read. Suffice it to say though that it's part of the series I adored as a 13-14 year old, and it still holds a soft spot in my heart.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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