Rating: 
Summary: BAH
Review: SPOILERS IN HERE:
Ryld.. What more can I say? TO see my favorite character die was more then disappointing. Had to skip through the rest of the book to see if it was true or not. I Thought Jeggard was going down, that is how it should have been.
He dies for no reason. Somehow his powerful sword with magic dispelling properties got cracked with some humans axe? Not likley. He could have contributed to this series. I cant believe Mr salvatore let this happen.
Hopefully the next author fixes this grievous problem. Because that is what it is. As a writer myself that act was a bad decision ;concering plot formation/ the crecendo of such a large event.
Obviously Phillip Athans had no grasp of the impact Rylds pointless death would have.
If your going to kill off a character it is common sense to do it for a good reason.
You would have thought the other authors would have stoped this mistake...
I think he did a good job with the other characters. Not great.
On a bright note I still liked this book, and am looking forward to the 6th.
Rating: 
Summary: Not worth your time and money
Review: The worst book in the series so far. In about three hundred pages, almost nothing happens: three battles, one eventless trip to the abyss, and that's it. The thin plot stretchs dully over all too many pages, the characters behaviour differs completly from their behaviour in the prior books (Distinctly, Quenthel), and there are lot of mistakes in the plot as well (for instance - the way Nimor appears out of nowhere after Gromph got rid of him in Extinction). My advice: read the summary and skip to the next book in the series. Hopefully It'd be better than this.
Rating:
Summary: Decent...
Review: Well, I was a little disappointed with some parts, including everything including Ryld, not to mention the fact that over half of the 350 page book was dedicated to a single spell battle. However, it does progress the story in the direction it was intended to go, and as the the title of this review states, it was all-in-all decent. Worth reading if you are interested in the series.
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