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Summary: Plan Your Reading time wisely! You WONT Want to put it down!
Review: This is an excellent book completely filled with action, adventure, romance and riddles along the way. It is the best book in the series in my opinion and the author did a great job of even more character developement. The characters from Shadowdale become even more heroic as the book goes on, and its one of the great books that you won't want to put down. So do yourself a favor after you've read Shadowdale and definately pick it up, its well worth it.The reason it got four stars is because at parts i did actually feel bored, although it was a bored in which i didn't want to put the book down because of awaiting what would happen next; i knew something would.
Rating: 
Summary: second part, more of the first
Review: This is necessary reading if you are a fan of the Forgotten Realms simply because this is the actual explanation of what happens to cause the Time of Troubles. The execution of that explanation, though, isn't all that great. It actually seems that there is TOO much time spent on "developing" the characters...even after we already know them pretty intimately. The plot seemed to drag (it was fairly fast paced, but in numerous bursts), and it felt like there were parts that were stuffed in there to make the thing take longer. Also, I found the characters frustrating...let's just say that you should only let a guy stab you in the back once, twice in a book, before you see it coming. Read it if you are a fan of the Forgotten Realms, otherwise don't bother.
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