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Summary: Alright, but why so BIG a volume?
Review: This is really just a novel, in which each of the seven sisters passes on the baton to the next as part of a connected story. The device is a bit thin, but the book is perfectly readable, and fine as light relaxing fiction. I'd like more, as ever. Greenwood isn't a particularly good writer, but the work is edited competently and flows easily enough. It's no worse than the Elminster stories.The only gripe I had was with the physical format and cost. It's hard to hold so big a volume, and I object to paying extra for something that won't fit on my shelves. But if you like the Forgotten Realms setting, and have liked other Greenwood novels, I think you'll be happy with this one.
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Summary: Alright, but why so BIG a volume?
Review: This is really just a novel, in which each of the seven sisters passes on the baton to the next as part of a connected story. The device is a bit thin, but the book is perfectly readable, and fine as light relaxing fiction. I'd like more, as ever. Greenwood isn't a particularly good writer, but the work is edited competently and flows easily enough. It's no worse than the Elminster stories. The only gripe I had was with the physical format and cost. It's hard to hold so big a volume, and I object to paying extra for something that won't fit on my shelves. But if you like the Forgotten Realms setting, and have liked other Greenwood novels, I think you'll be happy with this one.
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Summary: Pure Ed Greenwood -- but better!
Review: This is the FR book I've been waiting for, thank you very much! The best of the "Chosen" characters in an all-out magical slugfest. Each of the seven gets basically equal treatment and this, unlike the often confusing Elminster books, shows Greenwood really maturing and improving as a writer. The plot is much less confusing, the cast of characters is small enough to make it possible to tell who's who, and the magical combat is second to none. Also, this book is just BEAUTIFUL, with GREAT illustrations. Totally worth the trade paperback price.
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Summary: Where's the ending ?
Review: Well like many others I have been waiting for the story behind the 7 sisters. The way Ed has brought them together was very well done. The magic battles were fantastic. I found it hard to put down during these parts. But I found the ending incomplete. One minute things are happening and the next it's all over and happily ever after. Where'd they go from there, what happened in Waterdeep, Skulport and Scourburn. Maybe I should be patient and wait for the next installment, which I hope there is one.
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Summary: Where's the ending ?
Review: Well like many others I have been waiting for the story behind the 7 sisters. The way Ed has brought them together was very well done. The magic battles were fantastic. I found it hard to put down during these parts. But I found the ending incomplete. One minute things are happening and the next it's all over and happily ever after. Where'd they go from there, what happened in Waterdeep, Skulport and Scourburn. Maybe I should be patient and wait for the next installment, which I hope there is one.
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Summary: Well, somewhat amusing, except for having no plot.
Review: Well, when I saw this at the bookstore, I jumped to buy it. When I found out Qilue of Daughter of the Drow was in it, I was thrilled. However, the rest was fairly bad. The part of Dove's story when she is disguised as a drow is amusing, and I find her drow persona, Iylinvyx Nrel'tabra, the best character in the book. Qilue's story disappointed me, as she is nothing like she seems in DOTD. The Simbul's story was also fairly amusing, but the sisters' indestructablity grates on my nerves. There were some fairly random scenes in this book that, for all I could figure, had nothing to do with the so-called plot. And as for that, I had to dig very hard to find it. There just wasn't much of a rising action. *Shrugs* But, learning about the sisters I didn't know was fun.
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Summary: Book of the Seven
Review: When I started this book I had high hopes for it. At the beginning I thought Ed was becoming old or something, but as the story went on I started to see more of the old fashion Ed. To those who enjoy stories of the Seven and writings of Ed GreenWood, I recomend this book. The writer was again able to capture the characters very well, although the beginning was little sticky but the closer to the end you go, the more intense it comes. For all fans, I recomend this novel.
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Summary: The worst book I've ever read
Review: While I really liked many of Ed Greenwood's contributions to the Forgotten Realms, "Silverfall" is the ultimate failure. The whole story - when one can call it a story at all - is implausible from the first to the last word. The charactes have not even the faintest depth. The Seven Sisters are the Chosen of Mystra, and are therefore beings of tremendous power. Each of the sisters usually has her very own personality and her very own motivations, as well as being quite intelligent and sometimes even wise. In "Silverfall" they are simply a bunch of arrogant fools. They are running about without rhyme or reason and rush headlong into every trap and every danger set for them, missing not even a single one. Half of the time they are surviving their arrogance and foolishness only because they are the great and mighty Chosen of Mystra. The other half of the time it's sheer luck and one must wonder if they are secretly also the Chosen of Tymora (the goddess of luck). Why the Seven Sisters must constanly be unclad is also beyond me ... but that's another story. Everyone who "knows" the Seven Sisters from other sources should give this book a wide berth and keep them in mind as they deserve it.
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Summary: The worst book I've ever read
Review: While I really liked many of Ed Greenwood's contributions to the Forgotten Realms, "Silverfall" is the ultimate failure. The whole story - when one can call it a story at all - is implausible from the first to the last word. The charactes have not even the faintest depth. The Seven Sisters are the Chosen of Mystra, and are therefore beings of tremendous power. Each of the sisters usually has her very own personality and her very own motivations, as well as being quite intelligent and sometimes even wise. In "Silverfall" they are simply a bunch of arrogant fools. They are running about without rhyme or reason and rush headlong into every trap and every danger set for them, missing not even a single one. Half of the time they are surviving their arrogance and foolishness only because they are the great and mighty Chosen of Mystra. The other half of the time it's sheer luck and one must wonder if they are secretly also the Chosen of Tymora (the goddess of luck). Why the Seven Sisters must constanly be unclad is also beyond me ... but that's another story. Everyone who "knows" the Seven Sisters from other sources should give this book a wide berth and keep them in mind as they deserve it.
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