Kate Novak

2.5/5. This one started out pretty well, I liked the initial set-up and the characters, but somewhere after the halfway mark, the story became too nonsensical for my liking. The characters had some great moments together, but lacked development overall. I couldn't care less for the antagonist(s) and there were too many plot-twists and revelations towards the end, for me to keep my interest up.

One of the best of the Forgotten Realms (AD&D) novels. Alias, a swordswoman, wakes up one morning with no knowledge of how she got some strange tattoos. Finding out what they are and how she got them is an epic quest that is very well written.

I really like this series of books. As a sequel to Azure Bonds, this is rather brilliant. It brings back many of the characters from that book, but often in a different form than we saw them before, and it uses many of the ideas from that book, but goes off in a completely different direction. Its kind of what you'd like sequels to be....not carbon copies of the original work, but with ideas from that original work explored more fully. Its a much more grounded book, which is odd for a show more fantasy, and there's a lot of emotion, helped by a cast of well realized characters. show less

One of the better Forgotten Realms novels, with a very interesting and diverse cast of characters, well fleshed out. The best complement I can give a book is that it left me wanting to read more about these characters.