Conan the Raider

Rating:
Summary: OK Conan novel
Review: This is about an average Conan novel. It starts out much better than it ends, but it is always at least readable. In "Conan the Raider", our barbarian warrior teams up with a group of tomb raiders (sadly, Laura Croft wasn't among them), then learns of a kind of funeral cult in the capital of Shem. It is lead by an evil necromancer (wizard with control over the dead) and sponsered by a dying king. Conan gets caught up in more palace intrigue with the decent princess against the evil step mother queen. There is also the grave theives to worry about. The early scenes in the ghost ridden tombs were much better and exciting than the later "JFK"-type conspiracys later on, and the part where Conan is thrown into slavery was very dull. But all in all, it isn't too bad, and better than other Conan books.

Rating:
Summary: OK Conan novel
Review: This is about an average Conan novel. It starts out much better than it ends, but it is always at least readable. In "Conan the Raider", our barbarian warrior teams up with a group of tomb raiders (sadly, Laura Croft wasn't among them), then learns of a kind of funeral cult in the capital of Shem. It is lead by an evil necromancer (wizard with control over the dead) and sponsered by a dying king. Conan gets caught up in more palace intrigue with the decent princess against the evil step mother queen. There is also the grave theives to worry about. The early scenes in the ghost ridden tombs were much better and exciting than the later "JFK"-type conspiracys later on, and the part where Conan is thrown into slavery was very dull. But all in all, it isn't too bad, and better than other Conan books.