Blood and Honor: The War-Torn, Book 4 [Mass Market Paperback]

Graeme Davis (Author)

Book Description

Series: War-Torn | Publication Date: September 12, 2006

Karrnath, born in war . . .

The daughter of a noble family has gone missing. A proud and ancient house has fallen to ruin. Even the dead are disappearing.

A disgraced exile may be the only one who can save them.

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About the Author

About the Author

Graeme Davis started playing Dungeons & Dragons in the mid-1970s, shortly after it was first imported into his native Britain. His first paid writing for the game was an article in Games Workshop’s White Dwarf magazine in 1982, and he has worked in the gaming industry since leaving university in 1986. He has written over 30 books and 100 magazine articles for Dungeons & Dragons and other roleplaying games, and contributed to the design of more than 15 computer and video games. This is his first novel.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (September 12, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786940697
• ISBN-13: 978-0786940691
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,629,261 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Graeme Davis was born near London's Heathrow Airport in 1958 and studied archaeology at the University of Durham.

He is the co-author of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and has written over 50 titles for tabletop roleplaying games. His first novel, the Dungeons & Dragons tie-in "Blood and Honor," was published in 2006. He is also the author of several articles on historical topics, and his short story "Against the Air Pirates" will appear in the Stone Skin Press anthology "The New Hero."

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent Eberron novel, September 24, 2006

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Andrew Gray "Beezer Review" (Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood and Honor: The War-Torn, Book 4 (Mass Market Paperback)

Blood and Honor is part of the stand alone novels being released in the Eberron world from Wizards of the Coast. This book is part of the War-Torn as I mentioned above they are a series of stand alone novels that basically describe how the Last War has affected countless people and the obstacles they must over come, or have over come, to survive

This book is basically two plots woven together. Neither are really strong plot lines, but together they make the story work rather well. The first plot line is that someone is stealing undead warriors before they can be destroyed and selling them, naturally, our heroes take it upon themselves to solve that problem. The second plot line is that a brother is searching for his brother who was lost on the Day of Mourning. When I first started reading this book, if honestly felt like the author had taken a short story plot and stretched it out into a 300 page book. However, once the story got going it flowed well and things began to make sense. It really is a solid book. There is nothing really `special' about it, but it's a solid story that serves its purpose well.

The characters in this book are decent as well. I had hard time connecting with the characters. To me they served their purpose, but didn't add too much to the overall telling of the story. The only character I really developed any real caring about was Brey. The rest were just there. This is not to say that the characters are bad, because they are not. There was simply nothing that stood out for me when reading about the characters. I know the author tried to get them to be special, but it didn't click for me. Also, I was a little disappointed that while the characters seemed to be young, there were also times when they had knowledge that advanced the story but it didn't really make sense them knowing certain things. As I mentioned above, the characters served their purpose in the book, but did not enhance the story all that much for me.

Overall, I did enjoy this novel. It had good flow the wording made it easy to follow along and the plot was broad enough to keep me interested, yet not so big that I got lost. I wish the characters would have stood out more, but that does not hinder the overall enjoyment of this book. I think if you are a fan of Eberron you will enjoy this novel. If you are just getting interested into the Eberron world the War-Torn books are a good place to start. I would probably recommend this book, but it would not be the first book on my list tat I would recommend.

4.0 out of 5 stars Blood and Honor Review, May 24, 2010

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A. E. Terry - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood and Honor: The War-Torn, Book 4 (Mass Market Paperback)

For a novel based on an RPG, this has really been enjoyable... despite that often as I read, I felt like I was reading someone's novelization of a D&D module. But Davis' writing style made that work. The characters were decently worked out, I did enjoy the character Brey the best in her quest for personal revenge for what was done to her. The others were alright, nothing that really stood out.

My only gripe is when Kaz finally encounters his brother and Gali's insistance that "this fight is between us!" and them duking it out. Perhaps it was just me as this trope seems to get used a lot.

The story really worked well for being set in Eberron and characters fighting the undead and they're just more then run of the mill skeletons and zombies, but other things.

It has a little too happy of an ending... that's not exactly the right phrase... Still just a little "everything works out and all are content!"

This book, next to Orb of Xoriat are the two I've liked best from the War-Torn series for stand alones.