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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
More brain-candy fantasy from Lain, with Iconic folk aplenty,
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This review is from: The Living Dead (Dungeons & Dragons Novel) (Mass Market Paperback)
The second book in the Dungeons and Dragons series that feature the Iconic characters from the 3rd Edition Player's Handbook, "The Living Dead" pits our heroes against undead villainy running amok.The heroes from the PHB this time include Devis, Mialee, and Soveliss, along with a secondary cast of characters that round out the group. The story tends to have a lot more humour in it than you'd expect: two people end up running around a city naked in the pouring rain, for example, before the story is very far underway. There's some classic fun in this one, as well as very dark villains and sometimes gore-laden descriptive text. After all, undead are the enemy. There's no great mental challenge to these books so far, and that's fine - this is not reading intended to change your life, after all. The length is still very short for the price, but the story - even if it is straightforward - is entertaining. This is candy for the mind, easily and quickly enjoyed, and I'll happily admit I'm hooked. 'Nathan
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Resurrection,
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This review is from: The Living Dead (Dungeons & Dragons Novel) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is so much better than the previous one it resurrects the just born series. In this piece we have a new cast of characters, more seasoned adventurers than in The Savage Caves and the story is of a 1000 year epic struggle involving higher powers rathern than the cave crawl of the previous book.The pace is slower and the characters are allowed to give much more exposition, probably too much exposition with many speeches giving the history of everyone. However it does allow the characters to become much more fleshed out than the ones from The Savage Caves. The actual adventure consists of a bard, mage, cleric and ranger trying to finally end the terror of a very powerful undead. It was actually solidly mediocre and uninspired, just what you'd expect from franchise fiction. All in all, an improvement over the very poor The Savage Caves yet only a mediocre 3 out of 5.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good start,
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This review is from: The Living Dead (Dungeons & Dragons Novel) (Mass Market Paperback)
T.H. Lain is a great writer... considering he's a pen name of many different novelists. None the less, this version of T.H. Lain got an entire story, including character introduction, character development, introduction of bad thing, introduction of a prophecy & resolution into less then 200 pages. I've seen other D&D writers do less with more.
I wont go into great depth about plot, other then to say that undead are involved: Ok, maybe a bit more... but i dont want to spoil it. Bad things are happening in a generic D&D town & suddenly the town stops being quite so generic as its revealed that this town has an almost lovecraftian past. Ok, so this book isn't great. However, it is well written. If the author had been given the room, this book could have been brilliant: As it is it still gets four stars from me, because it did what it set out to do with style; something that isn't easy with only 192 pages to work with. One of the best in the series -M
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