Planar Powers

Planescape: Blood Wars #3

by J. Robert King

Aereas is dead. His daughter is growing up to be a beautiful woman, learning from her unle the business of espionage. Nina is close to dying. Her son is training in music at the shop of Boffo the Gnome. The Blood War itself still rages. Even the heavens shake with its fury, and they may well topple, unless these children of heroes truly bear their parents' blood.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Dungeons and Dragons

320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 1, 1997

Reviews

[Keith · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is far better than it has any right to be. Such corporate pulp is not supposed to come this close to literature, much less art. King's style here borders on post-modernism, while still retaining the overall style specific to and expected of the PlaneScape multiverse, with touched of meta-narrative and wry humor, along with subtle and sometimes arch alliteration that seemed to me to lift this well beyond the genre to which is nevertheless clearly belongs. Exceedingly well done, and a fitting end to the trilogy.

[Lorewarden]

This book was a bit of a fever dream. The previous two books in the trilogy followed a basic narrative of events, despite the two books being very different tonally. This third one was... "weird." That's not necessarily a bad thing, in fantasy or a Planescape novel specifically. The author went out of his way to break the simple narrative and get artistic and even self referential. It's like the first two books in the trilogy told the story, and this third one let the author do crazy things with the characters now that the story was over. I did enjoy the novel, it was just.... "werid."

[Emmanuel Pothos · Rating 3 out of 5]

Out of the three books, the less interesting, still worth a read, if not for anything else, for completeness's sake.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Full review here:

https://jamesgenrebooks.blogspot.com/...

While I'm not sorry about reading it, I don't think it rates a reread any time in the near future.

[Justin Salisbury · Rating 1 out of 5]

I enjoy D&D novels in general, but this series is horrible.

[Nancy Raines]

Blood Wars Book 3