Mike Shel

I thought book 1 was above average, book 2 was pretty good, but book 3 just didn't deliver. Maybe it was due to the fact I read all 3 near each other in time, but all I could think was "Enough with the gore, demons/demonic possession, and vast quantities of red shirt deaths." And this is coming from a hardcore grimdark fan. When a background character has his head smashed, I don't really need, or desire an in depth description of leaking fluids and the new shape of said head. Basically, by show more book 3, just about everything in and about this series was so, so very tired. Just my humble opinion. Take it as you will. show less

Having read Dungeons of Golarion, I'm wondering just how useful it would be in a game. Six dungeons, 64 pages leaves 10 pages per dungeon. There are two fully worked out examples of single levels, with the rest of the dungeons having an unlabeled map for a level. There is detailed workups of some traps, major NPCs and some new magic. And there's a description of 20 level dungeons with a paragraph per level. There's some interesting ideas here, but it's so spread out as to be little practical show more use. I am wondering whether we will see more fleshed-out versions of some of these dungeons at some point. show less

Original, great pacing with good twist. Gods behaving poorly is always high on my list.

This is my kind of book. Interesting characters involved in a quest to return a stone to its idol because of the death and disease that it seems to be instigating. First book of a series that I believe I will continue reading.