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Summary: Refreshing!
Review: Mel Odom has stumbled upon a very exciting and refreshing adventure for Jherek. The Sahauguin have raised an ancient evil and now head to the surface world to wage war. They attack Waterdeep and nearly destroy the entire city. Meanwhile a young sailor named Jherek has his past catch up with him again and he is on the run once more. All the while he keeps hearing a strange voice calling to him in his mind. While an old bard treks to finish a song which will tell a great tale, it he can ever find out who the hero is. This is an extremely well written book, and the setting is quite interesting. Though the Sword coast is not a new setting, under the sea is. The plot is deep and involved and pulls you right in from page one. This book is a great start to a fantastic Trilogy. Enjoy!
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Summary: Can't wait to see how the Realms will survive this crisis!
Review: Mr. Odom, I am a rather avid fan of one of your fellow authors, Bob Salvatore, and through my following his Dark Elf storylines, I've come to a passing familiarity with the Realms and its characters. Apart from this, I collect Harpers books, the anthologies and other Realms-related titles. I hope that this will turn out as well as The Lost Library of Cormanthyr. However, I feel I must point out to you something which your editors may have overlooked. The Rearing Hippocampus should not be the Rearing Hippocampus, but the Hidden Blade! In the attack on Waterdeep, Iakhovas makes a deal with Jannaxil Serpentil, who has a knife wound on his right hand, which was inflicted by Elaith Craulnober. At the time Craulnober did this (in Elfshadow, The Harpers series), he already won the tavern from the owner and renamed it. Apart from this, no major inconsistencies, although I'm wondering exactly how powerful Iakhovas really is, considering that Waterdeep is home to one of the Seven Sisters, Laeral Silverhand Arunsun! Terrific battle scenes! Great choreography, great new characters. Anyway, can't wait for the next one. Hope to see Xuxa and Baylee and Cordyan Tsald before the series ends!
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Summary: Abolutely Brilliant
Review: One of the best books I've read in many a year. Fast-paced and full of action yet written with a subtle plot which keeps you guessing all the way through the book. A must buy for any Forgotten Realms fan !
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Summary: The ending could have been better!
Review: Overall I liked this book. The main character is a little too idealic. Not seeming to want to ejoy any of the fun that is normally part of these novels. This book is also not like any of the other series books in the Forgotten Realms. It leaves to much hanging. But overall I enjoyed reading this book
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Summary: Ancient monster returned
Review: Shahuagins have woken up an ancient monster - Iachovas. His arrival was predicted by prophecies of all marine races. Iachovas tends to control sea depths, he collects ancient artefacts and subordinates to his will all sea evil of beings. Horrible horde, headed by Iachovas, is ready to destroy any who will rise on its way. All sea creatures and inhabitants of coast in danger, nobody can be sheltered from an approaching tide of horror. Waterdeep is destroyed, ships can't travel in Sword Coast Sea any more. Jerik the young sailor pursued because of reputation of the father, he hears voices calling him to serve same mystic power. Jerik should find himself and follow an ancient prophecy, to stand on the path of rising tide. This book uncloses a new series of the books in Forgotten Realms, the author found a new very interesting and fresh area.
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Summary: Ancient monster returned
Review: Shahuagins have woken up an ancient monster - Iachovas. His arrival was predicted by prophecies of all marine races. Iachovas tends to control sea depths, he collects ancient artefacts and subordinates to his will all sea evil of beings. Horrible horde, headed by Iachovas, is ready to destroy any who will rise on its way. All sea creatures and inhabitants of coast in danger, nobody can be sheltered from an approaching tide of horror. Waterdeep is destroyed, ships can't travel in Sword Coast Sea any more. Jerik the young sailor pursued because of reputation of the father, he hears voices calling him to serve same mystic power. Jerik should find himself and follow an ancient prophecy, to stand on the path of rising tide. This book uncloses a new series of the books in Forgotten Realms, the author found a new very interesting and fresh area.
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Summary: This book was amazing!
Review: This book was one of the best books I have read. The character of Jherek was cool because of how he was a famous pirates son. I also liked the Sahuagin people and Iakhovas and cant wait to get the second and third ones.
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Summary: About Time
Review: This is a great book yes a few of the characters are a bit two dimensional but its the first book in a trilogy Its fantasy at its best the bad guys are evil the doog guys are good the action fast the drama dramatic. I good book that lays the ground work for a great trilogy.
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Summary: At last a book with good fighting scenes
Review: This is probebly the first book i read that has good fighting scenes not some boring all to long fighting scenes the worst thing in this book was the relationship between Sabyna and Jherek
to much romance for my taste. But yet this book is one of the best i have ever read. I live in Icland so im sorry if my english is bad.
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Summary: Awesome...
Review: This was one of the first fantasy books I had read where such a large portion of the story takes place underwater. This makes it very interesting and suspenseful b/c I am less familiar with underwater, since I live above water, and you wonder, "What is lurking down there?" Well according to Odom, there are all sorts of really cool and dangerous beasts, and in this book they launch a huge assault on Waterdeep, one of the greatest cities of Faerun or whatever its called...The action and fights scenes are almost non-stop, and his descriptions make it really easy to picture these scenes...unfortunately the series goes downhill after this one, but its still a strong series overall...this is one of my favorite Forgotten Realms books...
The only downside is the characters are not even remotely realistic and if they were real people no one would be able to stand them...
In a word, Jherek is perfect...he feels guilty about glancing at a woman, and is just plain boring b/c there's never any doubt as to what he is going to do and you won't really care anyway...but that is more of a problem in the 2nd and 3rd books for me, b/c this one is almost non-stop action so the fact that their is no plot and the characters suck isn't enough to hurt the book...I thought it was kind of interesting though how Jherek happened to be the estranged son of Bloody Falkane, a pirate from Nelanther...still Odom doesn't really capitalize on this good idea...
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I actually reviewed parts 2/3 first, but after rereading the series, I really feel the need to bash the character of Pacy's the bard. He seemed pretty cool at first, he was a nice guy, and a great fighter (but when he casted a spell to make himself invisible its kinda like "C'mon...)...but he's suppose to be some master bard, like the best performer in the world...and while we can't hear his music in the book, we can read his lyrics...and they are oh so incredibly stupid...I don't care how great the music sounds, when you read the lyrics to his songs, you will be like, "I can't believe I'm reading this book, I hope no one sees me." I wish Odom would have just assumed we could imagine great music and left the lyrics out. But again, this is more of a problem in book 3 that anything else, but I couldn't really help but review this trilogy as a whole...
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