Rating: 
Summary: Awful! Don't waste your time or your money.
Review: This book doesn't even deserve one star. It is the worst Forgotten Realms book I have ever read. Some of their recent offerings have been weak, but this one was pathetic. I looked forward to this book for months. I should have saved my money. The book is the same scene over and over and over thirty seven times. The Knights of Myth Drannor are nowhere to be found. Every bad guy who said "Hey, pursuing spellfire is lousy idea" changed his mind. Some new ones showed up as well. Shan's kid disappears without explanation. There's no plot. There's no point. The ending is over the top and the montage is enough to make you gag. If you want good FR fantasy, pick up anything in the Sembia series, City of the Ravens, anything by R.A. Salvatore, or most stuff in the Harpers' series, if you can find it.
Rating:
Summary: Oh nevermind, I didn't like her anyway
Review: This book is a prime example of an author that has suddenly gotten bored of a character and world he has spent the two previous books building up. Rather than move along the plot line we're forced to endure chapters of random destruction. People, landscape and inconvenient things like a plot are eradicated en masse by spellfire, as is your intelligence and patience as you keep plodding through the book.The villains are plotting of course, against each other, against Shandriel, against you the reader. Of course none of them have read their Evil Overlord instruction manual [REMOVED WEB ADDRESS] and repeatedly violate Rule #12. Shandriel's ignominious end is the final insult that Greenwood delivers to the reader. In short it's akin to taking one's ball and leaving the playground because one was picked last for the game. Senseless death in the setting of the book trying to impart greater meaning is allowable. Getting bored with a character that was built up over two prior books is not. Rather than having this book exist fan-fiction would be much preferred.
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