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Title: Crown of Fire: Shandril's Saga (Forgotten Realms (Hardcover)) by Ed Greenwood ISBN: 0-7869-2749-6 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.21 (14 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Great!! but...
Comment: I have a few gripes w/ this book. First of all, Narm is one of the most annoying character ever. Couldn't he have been, just slightly less... whiny, whimpering and wussy? ^_~ Seriously, it's not too bad. I love the Hidden House, and how the characters interact. I just think the little morale Shandril yells at the lich and Narm's weakling attitude were too much. Aside from that, I really enjoyed it. It's even more action-packed than the first one.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good Sequel to Spellfire
Comment: I thought this book was better than most other people judging by their reviews.It builds the characters back grounds & shows their maturing.I'm partial to the Harpers & Knights of Myth Drannor who keep popping up to save the day.Read SPELLFIRE first then this book,it will make more sense & together they present a good story.Others mention how weak Narm is as a magic user,in the first book he was in AD&D terms a first or 2nd level magic user,in this book he casts a lightning bolt spell,(that's a spell you can only cast at 5th level or higher)He's gained 2-3 levels since the first book,not to shabby... Not everyone can be Elminster or Khelben Blackstaff....
Rating: 2
Summary: Hardly worth the paper it's printed on...
Comment: I don't know why I bothered after I read Spellfire and hated it. I guess I was just deperately hopeing that Greenwood manage to redeem himself...after all he is responsible for the Forgotten Realms you think he would have a lick of talent. It seems being a good game designer and a good author are two totally different subjects! This book is like any bad hollywood sequel in movies, it is basically the same as the first story with a slight change of scenery and a little time has passed. Points I would like to make are...Shandril (the heroine) is far too powerful and far too weapy! She spends about as much time crying as she does in combat, and combat never lasts that long when Shandril is present. She just wipes everything and everyone out (as if her existing powers werent enough she grows in power throughout the book). I ended up rooting for the bad guys in the end because I wanted her and her husband Narm dead. Narm is the next character I would like to chew on. I have never read of a more weakling mage character. Greenwood would have been well advised to see to it that Narm developed some magical abilities throughout the book so that he didn't always hide behind his woman. He ends up causing more trouble in battle then solving anything! The Knights of Myth Drannor are pointless characters that only appear in the book inorder to save Shandril and Narm from their own stupidity! I asked this question after reading Spellfire and I ask it now. Why was this book ever reprinted? Next time I spill something in my house, I won't run for the paper towels, I'll start tearing pages out of Spellfire and Crown of Fire to clean up the mess. At least then I would feel like I got my money's worth.
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Title: Spellfire (Shandril's Saga, Volume I) by Ed Greenwood ISBN: 0786918748 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Silverfall: Stories of the Seven Sisters (Forgotten Realms) by Ed Greenwood ISBN: 0786913657 Publisher: Wizards of Coast Inc. Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Stormlight (Forgotten Realms: The Harpers) by Ed Greenwood ISBN: 0786905204 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Shadows of Doom (Forgotten Realms: The Shadow of the Avatar, Book 1) by Ed Greenwood ISBN: 0786903007 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Cloak of Shadows (Forgotten Realms: The Shadow of the Avatar, Book 2) by Ed Greenwood ISBN: 0786903015 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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