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Summary: I have an awsome reveiw without giving anything away...
Review: This was an awsome book. Cool and funny characters. Newander dies
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Summary: A great beginning for an awsome series...
Review: This was an awsome book. The Bouldershoulder brothers are just hillarious. Powerfull enimies and spells keep the battles fast paced. Newander dies after Barjin hits him a dozon times and it is sad. Great book.
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Summary: A Horrifying Tale of Death...
Review: To all DnD readers this book is an essential. The captivating tale of love, hate, life, death, magic and combat keept me wanting more to the very end. It seems to have new revelations and suprising twists on every page. It not only has a near perfect story line, but all hose freaky undead guys and some reall cool weapons. The only downfall is the last sentence. A suprising Star Wars end to a fantasy book. But in any case, his is still an excelent book. I'm working on a campaign for this book setting. A true buy for a hardcore fan.
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Summary: Interesting fantasy with an original setting
Review: When I think of a fantasy setting, whether it be in the tradition of Tolkien's, "Lord of the Rings," (see my reviews of this excellent novel), Arthurian legend or a Dungeon's & Dragons (D&D) game, I think of underground catacombs, caves and other such places. The unexpected setting for this novel is a library, with a priest (cleric) as its protagonist.I have played D&D for some time and I enjoy the interactive story-telling aspect of it. I was unsure how this element of the game would translate into a novel. While there was one or two plot devices in this novel that I didn't particularly like, I enjoyed it overall. This novel forms the first part of a five-part series. The main character, Cadderly, is a cleric of Deneir (god of knowledge and beauty) was abandoned as an orphan to live in the Edificant Library. He subsequently develops into an accomplished scholar (Salvatore never lets you forget it; he constantly refers to Cadderly as "the young scholar") at the Library. While I recognized some of the plot right away, it was nonetheless an interesting. I'm reading this novel as part of the 1000 page "Cleric Quintet, Collector's Edition." The author's foreword is interesting; he discusses the meetings he had prior to writing to the book and of one interesting letter he received from a reader. The reader is a born-again Christian who congratulated Salvatore on his portrayal of Cadderly; the reader says that Cadderly's stuggle with religious duty and with doubt paralleled that of his one life. As I continue to read through the series, the inner turmoil that affects Cadderly slowly becomes more apparent. He begins his life as a scholar who rarely ventured beyond the walls of the Library and slowly changes into an adventurer. Before I read this novel, I asked some of more well read what sort of fantasy novels or authors they could recommend (while I have some familiarity with science fiction, history, religion and philosophy, the fantasy genre remains new to me), they mentioned Salvatore. This author is most famous for his "Dark Elf" trilogy, but I decided to read this somewhat lesser known work first.
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