Shadowrun 36: Crossroads [Paperback]

Stephen Kenson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Shadowrun | Publication Date: April 1, 1999

A young street mage working for the Draco Foundation is forced to return to his hometown of Boston to confront a dangerous shadow spirit and a corporate mage who are working together to turn the young magician into a human sacrifice--one which would unleash the shadow spirit to wreak evil havoc once more! The young mage must look into his past and find his connection to the dark spirit, or his life as a shadowrunner may end forever!.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Roc (April 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451457404
• ISBN-13: 978-0451457400
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,052,318 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty ....good book, November 17, 2000

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This review is from: Shadowrun 36: Crossroads (Paperback)

WOW! Rarely do I pick up a book and it grips me right away. I decided to read this one because I left the book I meant to read at work that night. I skimmed the prologue and was hooked and the book was devoured in days. Talon a street mage from Boston must deal with the mistakes of his past. Youthful anger and loss can create your worst enemies. How do you do battle when the enemy is of yourself. yadd yadda. All I can say is it is not a disappointment. I have long strayed from the shadowrun world of books, but now I may come back....

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fine story., September 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Shadowrun 36: Crossroads (Paperback)

I must respectfully disagree with the reviewer from Seattle: of all FASA's current Shadowrun novel authors, Stephen Kenson is the most knowlegable about the mileu (something you cannot reliably count on the others to be). Also inarguably he is the most knowlegable about the magic-related themes that this novel revolves around (he is the author of "Magic in the Shadows").

This book is not quite as good as Technobabel, but it is a fine story, involving several Boston related figures (see "Target:UCAS") and the mage Talon (late of Assets Inc, who Kenson introduced in Dunkelzahn's Secrets). One of the major story threads - that one's Enemies can come from within and not just from some dark metaplane, was very well handled. In fact, there are some characters in my SR campaign who's pasts might similarly come back to haunt them. . .

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not great, July 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Shadowrun 36: Crossroads (Paperback)

This book was pretty good. It had interesting characters and plot. However, you really had to know the universe in order to understand what was going on. Not for the new Shadowrun reader.