Fortress of Frost and Fire (The Bard's Tale, Book 2)

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Summary: A continuing tale of the Black Elf Naitachal
Review: An interesting tale of the black elf Naitachal, who is now a free bard, and an apprentice bardling, Gawaine, he acquired sometime before the story begins. They go off on a quest to find a valley of ice that Naitachal has heard an account of, and pick up an odd assortment of traveling companians along the way. The tale involves overcoming a dragon to win their way to freedom. Overall, a fair story to read.

Rating:
Summary: A continuing tale of the Black Elf Naitachal
Review: An interesting tale of the black elf Naitachal, who is now a free bard, and an apprentice bardling, Gawaine, he acquired sometime before the story begins. They go off on a quest to find a valley of ice that Naitachal has heard an account of, and pick up an odd assortment of traveling companians along the way. The tale involves overcoming a dragon to win their way to freedom. Overall, a fair story to read.

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Summary: Alice and wonderland meets the match maker . . .
Review: It started off decent enough, but within a few chapters already things were out of place on Naitachal, like a beard for example (uh NO!). The ways new characters were introduced wasn't so bad and some characters were hilarious, but as the book wore on it became evident that they were just throwing in ideas from other stories, like rumpilstiltskin (the gold seperating task), alice and wonder land(the hedge maze and talking beasts), and cinderella (the mice from the disney movie). Kill off a character, with no closure (for lack of a better word) and then every one prances off happily with a dear friend as a corpse (what they left him laying there?). The end with the villagers and who is taking messages where gets a bit confusing and I had to reread it and still felt lost. if not for the hilarious part with the little village with the onions and cousins I would have rated it as a 1 (since the rating doesnt go into the negatives.) A book to read only if THAT bored.