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Fire on the Water (Lone Wolf, No. 2)

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This was about my third gamebook and up till then I was bored silly by other pretenders. I found this book simply brilliant and still read it 7 years later. It has a range of excitement going from nerve racking nail-biting stuff to simply lunch time relaxed reading. The characters are of Hercules proportions and have in depth feel as if you were there in that day and age.

Fire on the Water is one of the best books in the Lone Wolf series for a number of reasons. First...the involving storyline. While reading this book, I actually felt drawn into the world of Magnamund more so than in the first book. Every plot-twist and crucial desicion pulled me farther in. The book begins with you, Lone Wolf, last of the Kai Lords, about to embark on a quest to recover the legendary Sommerswerd, the Sword of the Sun. Only a handful of your ancestors have wielded this magical blade, and you need it to repel the hordes of Zagarna, Lord of Kaag and the leader of the evil armies assailing Sommerlund, your home country. This adventure takes you across water, wasteland and whatever else you need to go over to get to Durenor and recover the Sword. Aided by few allies against innumerable foes, you must succeed in brining the legendary artefact home, lest your country fall to the might of the Darklords. Only you can suceed...you are Lone Wolf

The second book in the Lone Wolf series, Fire on the Water is chronicled in novel format in the two books The Tides of Treachery and The Sword of the Sun (formerly published together as The Sword of the Sun). The armies of the evil Darklord Zagarna, Archlord of the Black City, are encroaching upon your home country, Sommerlund, aided by the magical help of the Doomstones and the evil sorcerers called the Nadziranim. But your most dangerous foe is not of an inhuman empire: he was one of your countrymen, and he has revealed the deepest secrets of Sommerlund. Orchestrating the destruction of the Kai and much of Sommerlund, Vonotar the Traitor is possibly the most powerful magician in the world of Magnamund, for he has bound both good and evil magic together.
Only one thing can save your assaulted country: the Sword of the Sun. Given to Sommerlund's ally Durenor, you must travel to Durenor to retrieve the age old symbol of friendship and return-to destroy Darklord Zagarna.
But more than one thing stands in your way: Vonotar, distracted in another dimension by the forces of good, has learned that he did not destroy all of the Kai on the first day of Spring: you managed to escape due to divine interventions. Bent on destroying you, and therefore the only hope of Sommerlund, Vonotar has put enemies everywhere, some unkillable by your own sword. Your enemies will appear in all forms: from a mysterious cloaked person to your friends.
Can you survive the agents of the Darklords, the Tunnel of Tarnalin, and the wild city of Ragadorn, claim the Sommerswerd, meet Magnamund's most powerful sorcerer face to face, and return home alive? Only you can determine that

I thought this book was not near as fun or as high of a quality as the first book (and the next books in the series). I found the adventure in this book to be not very exciting. However, there were some great aspects of this book that only start to unveil the potential for the entire series. For example, there is a part where you have to choose attack someone at a table in a tavern. You must choose who to attack by a picture in the book. I thought this was incredibly neat because not only are you choosing the direction of your adventure based on descriptions and visuals.

Basically, the quest is to find the Sommerswerd and bring back an army to Holmgard. You meet many interesting characters along the way and fight some evil beings. Although there were times when I was bored in this adventure, it does have a nice conclusion to the introductory phase of the Lone Wolf adventures. I'm sure this book was much more exciting prior to reading all of the others many years ago.

Lastly, this adventure series can be fun for youngsters and adults as well. I am looking forward to the time when I have young children and we can explore the world of Magnamund together. This book does a great job creating situations that promote imagination and stimulation of the mind.

It only gets more epic from this point on. You are the last of the Kai warriors. Good luck!

Finally, Joe Dever has authorized the free distribution and licensing of his Lone Wolf series which are available online. This resource has the unabridged editions which makes it great. I will not give out the URL as part of the reviewers agreement but with a little searching you should be able to find it. I still enjoy using the paper versions but it is still a fantastic resource.

The LoneWolf series created by Joe Dever are probably the best fighting fantasy books ever written. The book #2 that is Fire on water is far better than the first one Flight from the Dark. Book #1 was too easy and short ,it took me about 40 minutes to finish it but it took me more time to finish book #2 that's just because it's much better than the first one. You'll become immediately addicted when you start reading the book, there are so many possibilities in different kinds of environment. I read it over and over again without gettting bored it's so brilliantly written. Dever takes you to a world that you are eager to explore and you won't stop until you've examined every single square feet with a magnified glass therefore I rate this book 10 it's simply the best.

Este libro se podría decir que marca la pauta de la historia de toda la serie. Y es posiblemente el mejor. Un escenario perfectamente ambientado, que nos depara numerosas sorpresas. La variedad de situaciones, barco, desierto, pueblo, tunel, batalla naval... le concede un densidad admirable. Aún así a todo el que lo lee se le hace corto, no teniendo más remedio que engancharse al siguiente libro.

i think it is a good book like all the lonewolf