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Return to Dominaria

Name: Return to Dominaria
Rating: 3.25 (2 reviews)

Martha Wells

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With the Gatewatch divided by the events on Amonkhet, Chandra, Gideon, and Liliana become involved in local events on Dominaria requiring urgent intervention. Published on the Magic the Gathering blog in twelve parts.

232 pages, ebook

First published May 1, 2018

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Martha Wells

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Martha Wells has been an SF/F writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993, and her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, the Ile-Rien series, The Murderbot Diaries series, and other fantasy novels, most recently Witch King (Tordotcom, 2023). She has also written media tie-in fiction for Star Wars, Stargate: Atlantis, and Magic: the Gathering, as well as short fiction, YA novels, and non-fiction. She has won Nebula Awards, Hugo Awards, Locus Awards, and a Dragon Award, and her work has appeared on the Philip K. Dick Award ballot, the British Science Fiction Association Award ballot, the USA Today Bestseller List, the Sunday Times Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List. She is a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, and her books have been published in twenty-five languages.

She is also a consulting producer on The Murderbot Diaries series for Apple TV+.

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MajesticalLion

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November 27, 2024

For the sake of catching up, I'm skipping back to modern magic until I reach the most recent arc, then I'll head back and finish up Prophecy and the rest of the novels.

Return to Dominaria brings me back to Innistrad in a way I hadn't expected. Like Innistrad, I think it suffers from a lot of pacing issues that sour how awesome the events of the story are a bit. That being said, Dominaria has another mark against it that wasn't true of Innistrad, in that I felt the dialogue writing was kind of empty. All of the characters exist for two purposes. Exposition, and quips. Lilliana and Chandra are the only characters that get any development, and in Chandra's case that development is more one note than I'd like. Chandra's development consists of "listen to your elders" and is dealt with in the span of half a chapter. That being said, the events of the story were very good, and the Bolas twist at the end was one of the most "oh that's clever" moments I've had with modern magic. In conclusion, I think this is one of the more mediocre MTG stories with some high points that make it stand out.

Next up, Ixalan. 😁