Customer Reviews

The Simbul's Gift (Forgotten Realms: The Nobles, Book 6)

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When I bought this book I assumed it would be terrible, but I found out that I rather liked it. I probably am biased but I thought the book was a very interesting book for a couple of reasons. First it offers the first and only look at the Simbul in a novel. Her personality as depicted certainly was nothing near what I imagined! She was portrayed as much more..human than I had thought her to be. The second factor is the interesting plot involving the Yuir elves and their gods. It is a very excellent book indeed.

After having read several source books to the Forgotten Realms campaing setting, I must say that I hardly even recognise the Witch- Queen of Aglarond. The book was entertaining but itdid not seem to fit with the campaign. Now I have to decide which Simbul I like the best...

I was a little let down by this one. Unfortunately, there just wasn't enough information on this new class of characters, and their history was somewhat left to the readers imagination. Furthermore, the smaller sub stories (like Red Wizards and such) were much more interesting than the whole story of the anciant race of elves. To bad, it had promise.

The book was very good. I especially liked the fact that a book finally went inside the personality of the Simbul, one of my favorite characters. Really the only dissapointing part of the book was that the ending wasn't much of an ending. It left a lot of unanswered questions.

Mmh...I really do not like these all powerful invincible characters like Elminster, the Seven Sisters and the Simbul, being one of them. It is just too easy for them to destroy hordes of powerful "evil" enemies with a mere thought. The story about these half-elves was quite interesting, but not captivating and I somehow felt, there was some kind of solution missing at the end. If you don't collect the FR books, you can skip this one.

I have read this book so many times and every time I shake my head and wonder where it is going and what is it about??? Even the title makes no sense,what was her gift??? Her name to the zulkir at the end??? what was that about??? that horse she wanted to give to Elminster??? Why would a 600+year old sorceress give a 1150+year old wizard a stupid horse for his birthday??? The bottom line is that the book makes no sense whatsoever.Why did she dream up some plot about red wizards when it doesn't go anywhere???

Another Lynn Abbey book that makes no sense,but at least it wasn't as bad as that stupid pitiful attempt to write about Hamanu of Urik