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Summerblood (Tale of Eron)

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This was decent fantasy novel but I thought it was probably the weakest in the series.Once again Deitz takes us to the war-torn land of Eron where Avall the war hero and reluctant young king must try to find ways rule his country by keeping the various clans happy.But Avall's problems become worse when a fanatical clan called the Priest cult plots to overthrow him and seize the magical jems that Avall used to defeat Ixians in the war.The problem I had with the book is that the characters behaved in stupid matter and even though the priest cult was suitable fanatical in the aims they were poor villians in comparision to King Baraxx from the previous two books.

There is a gaping plot hole is "Summerblood". Here's what happens. It picks up shortly after where "Springwar" left off. The good guys in Eron have driven off the bad guys from Ixti, and now they're settling down to the business of running a kingdom. Their first order of business is to have the magic regalia taken away from the capitol and hidden somewhere in the mountains. Why? The explanation provided doesn't really make any sense, and I was left with the impression that Deitz threw that twist into the book solely because he couldn't come up with any other way to create an interesting plot for the last two volumes of the series.

I'm torn about how to respond to "Summerblood", because other than that distraction, Deitz maintains the generally high quality level from "Bloodwinter" and "Springwar". Characters remain realistic, pacing remains fast, writing remains solid. There is one scene close to the middle of the book that is particularly noteworthy for its effectiveness. However, there's no getting away from the fact that the characters here sometimes act like idiots just because the plot requires them to, a tactic usually associated with the weakest authors. So I have to agree with the other reviewer who described this as the poorest book in the series.