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Title: Evermeet: Island of Elves (Forgotten Realms) by Elaine Cunningham ISBN: 0-7869-1354-1 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (40 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating book.
Comment: "Evermeet" is a fascinating mixture of history that seems to have been written by an elven historian and single stories told through the eyes of individual elves. The stories always have some bearing on the history, but the personal aspect makes it easier to understand, and more interesting. The book begins with an account of treachery and war between the elven gods, and continues with a steadily advancing timeline focused more on the Realms. Woven in with this is a present-time story of Evermeet in crisis. Elaine Cunningham keeps them all seperate and writes with the beauty that marks her other books. Only reason I didn't give this book a 10: There are annoying time gaps. The book is given to leaping ten, twenty, or hundreds of years without warning. But other than that, it's great.
Rating: 4
Summary: Finally a good book by Cunningham
Comment: Cunningham has shown a remarkable talent for building worlds, setting up a premise, and them ruining it all with laughable dialogue and poor character development.
In this book, which is basically a history of Elves in the Forgotten Realms, she shows all of her many strengths, and doesn't stick with any of the characters long enough to ruin them. I know that sounds like a backhanded compliment, but it does apply.
If you play D&D in the Forgotten Realms, you owe it to yourself to read this book. If you are looking for a great fantasy novel, it might not fit the bill because it really doesn't have a lot of character development; more like racial development.
Well written, and entertaining, it is easily the author's best work.
Rating: 4
Summary: a fast paced and wonderful read
Comment: After Reading through Daughter of the Drow I dove head first into this book to find out more to boost my knowledge of the Realms Elves and their deep history.
I must admit there where times when the story jumped and I found myself flitting back through pages to work out what was happening (though I am pretty new to the Realms books so maybe that's just me)
But just like Elaine's other book I mentioned I found myself thrown into the story and after a short while found myself enjoying the who's related to whom and how side of the book.
The story itself is wonderful if you can keep up with its speed. The characters are a bit of a mixed bag but most are well very written and wish there was more story written of them.
If you were interested in looking into the history of the elves of the Forgotten Realms, I'd say you need not look anywhere else.
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Title: Silver Shadows (Forgotten Realms: Songs and Swords, Book 3) by Elaine Cunningham ISBN: 0786917997 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Dream Spheres (Forgotten Realms: Songs and Swords, Book 5) by Elaine Cunningham ISBN: 0786913428 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Elfsong (Forgotten Realms: Songs and Swords, Book 2) by Elaine Cunningham ISBN: 0786916613 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Thornhold (Forgotten Realms: Songs and Swords, Book 4) by Elaine Cunningham ISBN: 078691808X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Elfshadow (Forgotten Realms: Songs and Swords, Book 1) by Elaine Cunningham ISBN: 0786916605 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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