Liane Merciel
Author of Dragon Age: Last Flight
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Liane Merciel is a pen name.
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Misery's Mirror (Pathfinder Tales) 2 copies
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- female
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- USA
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- Alaska, USA
Germany
South Korea
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Education
- Yale University
College of William & Mary (Law School) - Occupations
- state prosecutor
attorney - Disambiguation notice
- Liane Merciel is a pen name.
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- 3.6
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Also his brother, the heir apparent, sounded like a colossal idiot, so I can't really help but think Leferic had the right idea in assassinating him and taking his position. Whereas his brother may have been helpful as brute force and PR, he didn't think things through nor care what much happened to anyone unfortunate enough to fall in with his plans.
You had the righteously good (Sir Kelland), the mostly good (Brys), the unbelievably evil (the Maimed Witch), the misguided (Bitharn) and then...Odosse, the peasant girl who left her village at the right time and had the misfortune to then run into Brys on her way back. The two extremes were easy enough to keep track of--they stayed true to their alignment without fail, but everyone else was harder to keep track of. Plans changed so often my head swam. Bitharn, the misguided childhood friend of Sir Kelland who stayed beside him to protect him at all costs, can almost single-handedly be blamed for a lot of bad things. Odosse,who shows a lot of pluck and promise at first, had an annoying habit of questioning everything everyone said, claiming she'll do the opposite of what is the better choice and then changing her mind over something inconsequential.
Merciel seemed to have wanted to set this up as an epic in the making, but it doesn't hold up well. Motivations aren't fully explored, multiple characters could have been interchangeable and plot threads were useless and misleading.… (more)