4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Suprising and enjoyable, July 26, 2004
This review is from: Lady of Poison: The Priests (Mass Market Paperback)
I thought I knew where things were going. But I was wrong. The characters kept finding themselves in new places. I especially enjoyed it when they traveled through the ancient Imaskaran plane of mistakes on their way to Dun Tharos. Also, I really liked the story behind Marrec's parentage--I don't want to give it away here. I bet wou will like it, too!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Awful!, February 5, 2007
This review is from: Lady of Poison: The Priests (Mass Market Paperback)
I'll start with a question. Why is this book called Lady of Poison if Talona's clergy are given whole 20 pages of the novel? Queen of Forest would have been a more suiting title, and it would even go along with other names of this series.
This book is so badly written, to the point of unbelievable. I'm not a native English speaker, and I noticed literally tens of grammatical errors. Editing is nonexistent.
Dialogues are in a class of their own. An example: A: "The Rotting Man is an evil power." B: "Then, I have to stop him! Let's go!" Absolutely unrealistic and boring.
This book is loaded with Realmslore, but the way of presentation is a problem. Usually, one of the characters asks another character about something they encounter, and then that character holds a one page monologue about that something, so you have a feeling it was a copy/paste action from one of the Supplement Books such as Unapproachable East.
The plot and characters are equally terrible. To put it in the short way, I'm 100% certain that this was once someone's pretty dull D&D campaign. Two characters are on the quest, they meet another character with similar goals, they go to the next place, meet another character who joins them...
The book is supposed to be about a priest of Lurue, but his connection to his deity is represented only by his endless worrying about the deity's waning power. That's it.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining story and good use of game rules, August 12, 2004
This review is from: Lady of Poison: The Priests (Mass Market Paperback)
The characters in this story are well developed and non-standard. I really enjoyed the back story of the main character, and his battle with his ideas about himself. As I read this book, I noticed some of the 3rd ed. rules being woven in, quite well I think. I never asked the question "how the heck are these people still alive?" as I often do with Ed Greenwood or R. Salvatore books.
The concept of exploring priests is fairly unique; I think this series will prove they are trove of ideas and concepts that are entertaining as well as readable. I am very much looking forward to the next segment of "the priests" and I hope it is well done.
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