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Falconfar Saga #1
Dark Lord
When he mysteriously finds himself drawn into a world of his own devising, writer Rod Everlar is confronted by a shocking truth - he has lost control of his creation to a brooding cabal of evil. In order to save his creation - and himself - he must seize control of Falconfar and halt the spread of corruption before it's too late.
384 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2007
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About the author
Ed Greenwood
364 books875 followersEd Greenwood is the creator of the Forgotten Realms fantasy world, which became the setting for his home D&D game in 1975. Play still continues in this long-running campaign, and Ed also keeps busy producing Realmslore for various TSR publications.
Ed has published over two hundred articles in Dragon magazine and Polyhedron newszine, is a lifetime charter member of the Role Playing Game Associaton (RPGA) network, has written over thirty books and modules for TSR, and been Gen Con Game Fair guest of honor several times.
In addition to all these activities, Ed works as a library clerk and has edited over a dozen small press magazines.
Invented the character Elminster from the popular Forgotten Realms RPG series. Currently resides in an old farmhouse in the countryside of Ontario, Canada.
Ed has published over two hundred articles in Dragon magazine and Polyhedron newszine, is a lifetime charter member of the Role Playing Game Associaton (RPGA) network, has written over thirty books and modules for TSR, and been Gen Con Game Fair guest of honor several times.
In addition to all these activities, Ed works as a library clerk and has edited over a dozen small press magazines.
Invented the character Elminster from the popular Forgotten Realms RPG series. Currently resides in an old farmhouse in the countryside of Ontario, Canada.
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July 25, 2015
A lot goes on in this book, and at first I thought it was a very confusing book. However after much time and pushing through the first part it became a little less confusing.
I like how richly the world is developed and the magic and fights are described really well.
The parts that I didn't like are that the conversations are really bad. There is no character after the first book that I liked or really cared for. As a matter of fact I couldn't understand why anyone like anyone else in the book, the main characters Tay and Rod were boring and lifeless. If it wasn't for the fights I wouldn't have kept reading.
As I said there are 100s of characters and names introduced so it does get a little confusing, but it was an alright read.
I like how richly the world is developed and the magic and fights are described really well.
The parts that I didn't like are that the conversations are really bad. There is no character after the first book that I liked or really cared for. As a matter of fact I couldn't understand why anyone like anyone else in the book, the main characters Tay and Rod were boring and lifeless. If it wasn't for the fights I wouldn't have kept reading.
As I said there are 100s of characters and names introduced so it does get a little confusing, but it was an alright read.
January 17, 2012
I really think that Ed Greenwood is very very angry right now. That's the only thing I can think of for a wonderful fantasy author such as him to write something so horrible.
Never really read a book by Ed Greenwood that I did not like before. This is a first. It jumps around, ignores the main characters, and throws useless info at you when you least need it.
I believe this is a retaliation for those who decided to change the Forgotten Realms world so drastically. It seems almost to be 'look how much it sucks when you throw everything to the wind and muck everything up', which is what seems to happen in the book as well as the Realms.
Horrible, awful, it sucks, whatever you do do not buy this book.
Never really read a book by Ed Greenwood that I did not like before. This is a first. It jumps around, ignores the main characters, and throws useless info at you when you least need it.
I believe this is a retaliation for those who decided to change the Forgotten Realms world so drastically. It seems almost to be 'look how much it sucks when you throw everything to the wind and muck everything up', which is what seems to happen in the book as well as the Realms.
Horrible, awful, it sucks, whatever you do do not buy this book.
January 18, 2012
Hate to ruin your opinion of this is book if you are of a younger audience but this was one of the worst books I have ever read.
Having started out reading fantasy with The Wheel of Time and the works of Brandon Sanderson, I expected more depth. There appears to be a lot of potential for court intrigue between factions that seem to be decently thought out but the presentation was very poor, glazing over the details with an unreasonably fast moving plot, action scenes occurring at every turn with quite a bit of sexual tension to spice things up a bit more.
Wasn't really impressed with the 'magical' powers that the main character appears to have (don't worry, it's revealed in the first scene I believe). Having the author have the power to 'write' things into being seemed a bit lacklustre compared to the imaginative magical systems invented by many contemporary fantasy authors.
Evil characters also have very little depth and imagination or motivation, just the generic love of doing evil and lust for personal power.
Again, if you are of a younger audience you may enjoy this book, however at best it is a guilty pleasure for those looking for something of substance. It has all the hallmarks of a wet dream and about as much subtlety. To be completely honest, this book is almost comparable in every way to a guilty pleasure novel I attempted to write at the age of twelve with no preparation whatsoever.
The only consolation that I can offer you is that if you heed my warning you won't make it to the second book which is simply abysmal. The only reason I dragged myself through that as well was the only well crafted part of the book, the sexual tension between the protagonist and the lovely heroine on the front cover.
Suffice it to say, if you are at all fond of the works of Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, Paul Rothfuss, Steven Erikson, George RR Martin, etc. you will find none of their quality here. This book proves that a book should not simply be judged by the cover (which is the reason I impulse-bought this book in the first place).
Having started out reading fantasy with The Wheel of Time and the works of Brandon Sanderson, I expected more depth. There appears to be a lot of potential for court intrigue between factions that seem to be decently thought out but the presentation was very poor, glazing over the details with an unreasonably fast moving plot, action scenes occurring at every turn with quite a bit of sexual tension to spice things up a bit more.
Wasn't really impressed with the 'magical' powers that the main character appears to have (don't worry, it's revealed in the first scene I believe). Having the author have the power to 'write' things into being seemed a bit lacklustre compared to the imaginative magical systems invented by many contemporary fantasy authors.
Evil characters also have very little depth and imagination or motivation, just the generic love of doing evil and lust for personal power.
Again, if you are of a younger audience you may enjoy this book, however at best it is a guilty pleasure for those looking for something of substance. It has all the hallmarks of a wet dream and about as much subtlety. To be completely honest, this book is almost comparable in every way to a guilty pleasure novel I attempted to write at the age of twelve with no preparation whatsoever.
The only consolation that I can offer you is that if you heed my warning you won't make it to the second book which is simply abysmal. The only reason I dragged myself through that as well was the only well crafted part of the book, the sexual tension between the protagonist and the lovely heroine on the front cover.
Suffice it to say, if you are at all fond of the works of Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, Paul Rothfuss, Steven Erikson, George RR Martin, etc. you will find none of their quality here. This book proves that a book should not simply be judged by the cover (which is the reason I impulse-bought this book in the first place).
May 19, 2013
I cannot stress enough to you that you should NOT read this book. Seriously, I've read all types - from "trash fi" (silly science fiction books) to fantasy books of all kinds, but I've never encountered a worse series of books than this Falconfar Saga trilogy.
I checked all three books out of the library and I would've stopped with the first one, but I thought to myself, "Surely Ed Greenwood wouldn't write this kind of trash. It simply must get better." I was wrong.
Imagine an ambling plot while checking off every sin imaginable - murder (okay, par for fantasy novels), incest, blasphemy, necrophilia, misandry, to name but a few - and you have this trilogy.
Spare yourself. Do NOT read these! It's not even worth the free checkout from the library.
I checked all three books out of the library and I would've stopped with the first one, but I thought to myself, "Surely Ed Greenwood wouldn't write this kind of trash. It simply must get better." I was wrong.
Imagine an ambling plot while checking off every sin imaginable - murder (okay, par for fantasy novels), incest, blasphemy, necrophilia, misandry, to name but a few - and you have this trilogy.
Spare yourself. Do NOT read these! It's not even worth the free checkout from the library.
August 17, 2010
Ugh, I can't finish this book. The concept of a writer sucked into his own fantasy world seems, on the surface, very appealing. Plenty of potential for exploration of psychological themes, maybe some self-referential and recursive mystery and/or humor. Instead what we get is a second-rate action adventure full of chase sequences involving villains called Darkhelms. Nothing could entice me to finish the second half of this book.
August 1, 2011
Quite Terrible. I disliked the style and cliche overload front the start, but tried to give the book the "Benefit of the Doubt" by reading a few more chapters. "It has to get better" I thought. I cannot even bring myself to donate this to a library.
April 24, 2014
Hahahahahaha!!!!!!!
Truly, this book was not the best. Actually - it started ok-ish and it gradually and inevitably became just down right bad, but I was listening to the audio version of this and it's ridiculousness had me laughing out loud more than once. It was a book that was written like a mean cross between Richard Laymon's books (dirrrrty fantasy girls and gratuitous violence) and a teenage boys fantasy come true (dirrrrty fantasy girls and gratuitous violence).
:)
The premise of the story is that a fantasy writer is 'dropped' into the magical fantasy world he had written about and was on a quest to make it the wonderful world he initially created instead of the crap evil world that the video game world created after they bought the rights to create his world on line. Now, understanding that the actual author created a series that ultimately became the premise of the Dungeons and Dragons, I can't help but wonder if there is a parallel there. And - Lordy, have you seen the author shot on the GR site? No wonder he made up all those lusty, busty babes and magical men.
Anyways, I guess that's neither here nor there is it.
Don't expect a book with a lot of depth here. It's shallow wading while the quest for the author to regain his strength in 'Falconfar'. The writing meanders and the story focus shifts all the time. The 'magic' is confusing to say the least. At least the sexual tension between the 2 main characters has stayed the course. Of course.
But damn, the audio is a hoot! Must continue onwards to yon ending! We can only hope the magic carries into the actual writing.
Truly, this book was not the best. Actually - it started ok-ish and it gradually and inevitably became just down right bad, but I was listening to the audio version of this and it's ridiculousness had me laughing out loud more than once. It was a book that was written like a mean cross between Richard Laymon's books (dirrrrty fantasy girls and gratuitous violence) and a teenage boys fantasy come true (dirrrrty fantasy girls and gratuitous violence).
:)
The premise of the story is that a fantasy writer is 'dropped' into the magical fantasy world he had written about and was on a quest to make it the wonderful world he initially created instead of the crap evil world that the video game world created after they bought the rights to create his world on line. Now, understanding that the actual author created a series that ultimately became the premise of the Dungeons and Dragons, I can't help but wonder if there is a parallel there. And - Lordy, have you seen the author shot on the GR site? No wonder he made up all those lusty, busty babes and magical men.
Anyways, I guess that's neither here nor there is it.
Don't expect a book with a lot of depth here. It's shallow wading while the quest for the author to regain his strength in 'Falconfar'. The writing meanders and the story focus shifts all the time. The 'magic' is confusing to say the least. At least the sexual tension between the 2 main characters has stayed the course. Of course.
But damn, the audio is a hoot! Must continue onwards to yon ending! We can only hope the magic carries into the actual writing.
May 4, 2016
This book was probably one the biggest disappointments I have ever read. I only gave it two stars instead of one because the concept and ideas were there they where just done so poorly. Even in the first few chapters I had to wonder if maybe Greenwood was projecting a bit about his work in the Forgotten Realms series.
Here is an author who created such a wonderful and rich fantasy world only to have corporations twist and turn it into a way to sell merchandise and as such has become bitter and resentful about everything. And if you think I am talking about Mr. Greenwood you are wrong. That is our MC.
Turns out that he is a powerful druid who can write things into existence and as such the world that he has created is throne into this unwinnable war so a person from that story takes him away to try and make him fix it.
This is an interesting enough concept but wow was it boring and hard to follow. The writing just felt clunky and slogged along. And I found myself rereading pages several times just trying to figure out what was going on, and most of the time I didn't know was because I was zoning out waiting for something interesting to happen. I don't need epic fights or anything but I do need something to happen.
I had no real investment in anything that happened. And characters seemed to do things with little rhyme or reason. Like the noble just tried to kill your charge and is in no way sorry for his actions and will likely try again. So why in the world would you leave your charge to sleep with said man. It makes no since. And sadly that is something I was saying repeatedly through this story.
Here is an author who created such a wonderful and rich fantasy world only to have corporations twist and turn it into a way to sell merchandise and as such has become bitter and resentful about everything. And if you think I am talking about Mr. Greenwood you are wrong. That is our MC.
Turns out that he is a powerful druid who can write things into existence and as such the world that he has created is throne into this unwinnable war so a person from that story takes him away to try and make him fix it.
This is an interesting enough concept but wow was it boring and hard to follow. The writing just felt clunky and slogged along. And I found myself rereading pages several times just trying to figure out what was going on, and most of the time I didn't know was because I was zoning out waiting for something interesting to happen. I don't need epic fights or anything but I do need something to happen.
I had no real investment in anything that happened. And characters seemed to do things with little rhyme or reason. Like the noble just tried to kill your charge and is in no way sorry for his actions and will likely try again. So why in the world would you leave your charge to sleep with said man. It makes no since. And sadly that is something I was saying repeatedly through this story.
May 23, 2012
I tend to agree with a couple of the other reviews, this is a semi-autobiographical piece and Ed is lashing out at Wizards of the Coast and their corporate master Hasbro for their bastardization of Dungeons & Dragons with the 4th Edition and Ed's creation of the Forgotten Realms. Ed is Rod Everlar and Falconfar is the Realms. I also thought not enough time was spent on characterization and was one long run-on battle to the final chapters. His naming conventions were confusing and his dialogue was no where near what I expect from a writer if his tenure and skill. I'm hoping the remainder of the trilogy finds Ed in a better place because this world shows true promise.
January 21, 2017
Are you turned on by angels with swords in armor? Several bookish things can turn me on, but opening a book with a DREAM SEQUENCE where an angel-like creature gets de-winged and gutted is not among them.
Poor Ed. Sad sad, Ed. It's as if you never--even once--read a book with a title like, "Twenty Dimwit Things not to Write about in Your Novel!"
Poor Ed. Sad sad, Ed. It's as if you never--even once--read a book with a title like, "Twenty Dimwit Things not to Write about in Your Novel!"
November 8, 2020
This book seems to be about an author who was transported into his own book.
I think it's based on the belief that if enough people agree on something existing, then it exists. You can birth a being into existence by only believing.
I'm not sure I will continue the series. For a book about an "all powerful wizard", he sure does zero magic. Yes, I know it's the first book, and the series might progress, but this looks like it's turning out to be one of those "save the girl" cliche books.
I really dislike this type of magic. I like my protagonists using their minds to find shortcuts, or not dancing to the tune of everyone else.
Might pick up the sequel much later in the future, but seeing how I took so long to finish book one, I doubt it.
3/5 Stars
I think it's based on the belief that if enough people agree on something existing, then it exists. You can birth a being into existence by only believing.
I'm not sure I will continue the series. For a book about an "all powerful wizard", he sure does zero magic. Yes, I know it's the first book, and the series might progress, but this looks like it's turning out to be one of those "save the girl" cliche books.
I really dislike this type of magic. I like my protagonists using their minds to find shortcuts, or not dancing to the tune of everyone else.
Might pick up the sequel much later in the future, but seeing how I took so long to finish book one, I doubt it.
3/5 Stars
May 21, 2019
Absolutely horrible. If I hadn't read other stuff by the author I'd think this was written by a teenage boy who'd never touched a woman before. Every female gladly goes naked and presses their bodies over the men. The villains are caricatures of evil with little depth. And we jump away from the main story to minor characters without reason. The story is far from original (someone from our world sucked into a fictional world) and has been done much better elsewhere.
November 9, 2017
Dark Lord is a portal book for adults. I found it entertaining, well written, and most of the characters were distinct individuals. However, there were so many lords they all just kind of blurred together in my head, but they were only side characters, so it wasn't too bothersome. It's an interesting story with plenty of action and intrigue, and just a bit of romance.
July 25, 2019
Horrible, misogynistic tripe. This was the first audiobook I ever checked out on OverDrive, and never got beyond an hour into it. I always meant to finish it, but never got around to it. Fast forward to this year: I had a bunch of Audible credits building up, so I bought the entire series. Wow, that was a HUGE mistake.
June 28, 2017
I love the premise for this story. An author having a character he created come to his world (Earth) and drag him to the world he created (Falconfar) as that world is in peril. How could I not love this?!
June 23, 2020
this is the first book in the trilogy of falconfar
all i can remember from this book, is that the main character is useless and is mostly whining whenever we see him.
the characters werent very memorable, meh
all i can remember from this book, is that the main character is useless and is mostly whining whenever we see him.
the characters werent very memorable, meh
January 8, 2017
Boy did this book Suck. I like most of the other books this Author wrote so I thought why not give this one a try. Save yourself the time I get it!
February 6, 2017
i was hoping for more of a lord foulsbain, but this was so one dimensional, i am not even going for book 2
October 6, 2017
Audio book.
March 10, 2019
I dont like giving books bad reviews but I cant lie about it, it just couldn't keep me interested
August 13, 2024
I liked this one. The concept in this one is very unique for a fantasy novel. I am looking forward to seeing where this goes.
August 4, 2020
The premise is interesting but there are hints of other authors whose work I dislike, only not as well written. A fantasy author gets a portal to his own world only it has been corrupted by video game writers and sunk into perpetual warfare.
Unfortunately the premise seems little more than excuse for the author to present a series of tropes and two dimensional characters steeped in violence with little or no purpose.
The main character has elements of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever in him..unfortunately that character is one of my least favorite. We are treated right from the start with a misogynistic nerd who is all alone in the world now that he has found that real life females are cruel..we don't get the backstory, but it follows that the main character got ' friend zoned ' and is bitter about it.
He gets to flee to his own fantasy world of lusty females he wrote..and didn't write very well...and hear him whine about his plight for the rest of the book.
Then there are the bad guys. Here the author takes after Terry Goodkind...another one of my least favorite authors. The bad guys are really really evil and we get to crawl inside their minds and see how they really enjoy it. Uhhm no thank you..I didn't like it when Mr Goodkind thought that is what makes a ' mature realistic ' novel and I don't like it here either.
Finally we see elements of Robert Jordan and his "as the Wheel Turns" ..another series I didn't like and poorly imitated here with some interesting court intrigue scenes and two swashbuckling Barbarian thief characters that actually grabbed my attention..but by this point, like Robert Jordan, he had introduced too many characters to keep track of and was spending so little time on each one that the story was falling apart.
I was tempted enough to read the second in the series, Arch Wizard...just to see how bad it could get.
Unfortunately the premise seems little more than excuse for the author to present a series of tropes and two dimensional characters steeped in violence with little or no purpose.
The main character has elements of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever in him..unfortunately that character is one of my least favorite. We are treated right from the start with a misogynistic nerd who is all alone in the world now that he has found that real life females are cruel..we don't get the backstory, but it follows that the main character got ' friend zoned ' and is bitter about it.
He gets to flee to his own fantasy world of lusty females he wrote..and didn't write very well...and hear him whine about his plight for the rest of the book.
Then there are the bad guys. Here the author takes after Terry Goodkind...another one of my least favorite authors. The bad guys are really really evil and we get to crawl inside their minds and see how they really enjoy it. Uhhm no thank you..I didn't like it when Mr Goodkind thought that is what makes a ' mature realistic ' novel and I don't like it here either.
Finally we see elements of Robert Jordan and his "as the Wheel Turns" ..another series I didn't like and poorly imitated here with some interesting court intrigue scenes and two swashbuckling Barbarian thief characters that actually grabbed my attention..but by this point, like Robert Jordan, he had introduced too many characters to keep track of and was spending so little time on each one that the story was falling apart.
I was tempted enough to read the second in the series, Arch Wizard...just to see how bad it could get.
January 16, 2016
I'm a big sci fi/fantsy fan. Looking for something, anything to read, I stumbled on the Falconfar Saga and Ed Greenwood. From the book blurb and cover this looked liked it was up my alley. I really wanted to like this. I tried very hard to like this. But this is just bad. I forced myself to finish book 1 and got halfway through book 2; about to just give up on this. I was hoping that the writing/plot would improve, but it didn't.
My biggest beef is that the hero/protagonist is so depowered that he's practically useless. The series started with an interesting premise, but for someone who created his own fantasy world, the hero is a cluless idiot. First he's a Dark Lord, but doesn't act or have any power to deserve that title. Then he's a Lord Arch Wizard, but he basically can't do any majic...really???? I don't expect the main character to be all powerful, but at least make him competent. I understand that a flawed character is more interesting, but the hero is just a clueless idiot.
The other characters are also bland. The "dark helms", the main evil guys trying to kill the hero in the first book were one dimension and lacked any depth. The setting wasn't any better. I couldn't immerse myself in the story. That's a sign of a bad book. If I had anything else to read, i probably wouldn't have made it past book 1.
Nothing special here. Not worth your time, even if you're desperate for something new to read...
My biggest beef is that the hero/protagonist is so depowered that he's practically useless. The series started with an interesting premise, but for someone who created his own fantasy world, the hero is a cluless idiot. First he's a Dark Lord, but doesn't act or have any power to deserve that title. Then he's a Lord Arch Wizard, but he basically can't do any majic...really???? I don't expect the main character to be all powerful, but at least make him competent. I understand that a flawed character is more interesting, but the hero is just a clueless idiot.
The other characters are also bland. The "dark helms", the main evil guys trying to kill the hero in the first book were one dimension and lacked any depth. The setting wasn't any better. I couldn't immerse myself in the story. That's a sign of a bad book. If I had anything else to read, i probably wouldn't have made it past book 1.
Nothing special here. Not worth your time, even if you're desperate for something new to read...
January 24, 2013
I'm 50 percent finish with this book and honestly I don't want to finish it. Only because of the way it is written. I don't mind the speech that the characters use. Reading other fantasy novels I'm use to the pattern. Its the main character that I'm more annoyed with. He's from this world but ended up in a fictional world that he created in series of novels that unknown to him is real. He is the most powerful wizard and blah blah. I would really enjoyed this book if Greenwood would have taken that out and just have him a unknown somebody that nobody pays attention too. I know its cliche..but it would have been better than him being and author and is wisk away in a fictional/real world. That sounds cliche but it would have been..in my opinion better than him being in a real world then wisk away to a fictional world of his creation. I'm not sure its the power of Rods dreams becoming reality or he ate some good meatloaf before he went to bed. Ive read other reviews about this book and I agree that it is not what I would recommend to others.
September 27, 2016
Rod Everlar is a fantasy writer and creator of the world Falconfar. As he dreams of his creation things become too real - he is awakened by a mysterious woman landing in his bed, near death. They find that his blood is able to heal her and they flee to Falconfar just as the creatures hunting her appear in his bedroom. Once there Rod is told he is a Shaper, a powerful wizard that can change history in the land, though he knows not how. As the two travel Rod discovers that evil has taken over his land and he must somehow unlock his powers if he is to save his creation.
Dark Lord is the first in Ed Greenwood's new Falconfar series. Greenwood, well known for his D&D books, delivers an action packed story that will appeal to RPG fans. While the plot is fairly simple, it is an entertaining read.
Dark Lord is the first in Ed Greenwood's new Falconfar series. Greenwood, well known for his D&D books, delivers an action packed story that will appeal to RPG fans. While the plot is fairly simple, it is an entertaining read.
April 13, 2013
I've tried on various occasions to complete this book and I cannot. I liked the premise. I wanted to like the main characters. I found, as I read, that I just couldn't really care for them nor did I care what would happen to the fictional world that Ed Greenwood had created. It is rare for me to NOT complete a book once I start it. All a book needs is a decent idea and I will read it just to see how the author handles it. But Dark Lord? I was bored. What seemed like a fun idea was handled in such a boring way that I just found myself no longer caring.
I've not read any of Mr. Greenwood's other novels, so I can't speak to his writing skill overall. I've read that he has some decent books out there. Dark Lord just is not one of them.
I've not read any of Mr. Greenwood's other novels, so I can't speak to his writing skill overall. I've read that he has some decent books out there. Dark Lord just is not one of them.
March 29, 2014
This book should have it all. Book author travels to the realm of his imagination, has the ability to become the most powerful wizard in the world, beautiful fallen angel warrior at his side.
Unfortunately it falls short on every point. This book is part of a trilogy and as such you expect the hero to take a little bit of time to acclimate to the new world and then shine, but Rod never does. He rarely even bumbles into the correct answer. His fallen angel becomes a bondage sex slave for at least an entire book and the most interesting characters in the whole series is a fat warrior and his bone thin girl friend.
There are so many other series that do this theme properly that you really should steer clear of this one.
Unfortunately it falls short on every point. This book is part of a trilogy and as such you expect the hero to take a little bit of time to acclimate to the new world and then shine, but Rod never does. He rarely even bumbles into the correct answer. His fallen angel becomes a bondage sex slave for at least an entire book and the most interesting characters in the whole series is a fat warrior and his bone thin girl friend.
There are so many other series that do this theme properly that you really should steer clear of this one.
July 23, 2011
c2007. Definitely not for me. Less said the better. Sample of names - Deldragon, Taeauna, Aumrarr, Darendarr, Malraun, Lords of Galath - why can they just not be spelt phonetically, for heavens sake? "I learned of that tantlar in a vision, just now. Dendarr have you seen a gauntlet appear magically on someone's hand, here in your keep?"" I know that the author is well known for a whole series of fantasy books but perhaps this was just churned out to keep his publisher happy. Tired plot device didn't help
March 31, 2011
Good story, but big character overload. I was getting so confused by all the different names and places that I eventually started skimming sections of the books so I could get to what I felt were the interesting parts with Rod and Taeunna. Definitely liked the idea, and I'll read the next book when it comes out. But there could have been say, 30 less characters with names that were impossible to pronounce and I still would have enjoyed it.
July 14, 2011
It started out really cliche - but look at the cover; I expected that. The normal cliche high fantasy stuff, with the added bonus of the "Guy who comes from this world and then goes to that one and happens to be the most powerful person in that world but still manages to be a complete idiot" cliche as well.
It was particularly interesting, I didn't much like the writing, and the main character was a pansy. Simple as that.
It was particularly interesting, I didn't much like the writing, and the main character was a pansy. Simple as that.
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