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The Toybox by Jackie Cassada

shinychick's review

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2.0

I had Book Three of this series for the longest time. So, it was excellent when I found out that friends had the first two. Despite Changeling being my favorite game in the oWoD stable, this was slow going, as well. I recognized some of the characters from [b:The Splendour Falls|6064646|The Splendor Falls|Rosemary Clement-Moore|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1266488655s/6064646.jpg|6240946] (which I regard as the BEST oWoD novel, period), and so that was cool... I'm getting into the second book, Shadows on the Hill, now, and it's a little better.

ceciliabereadin's review

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I can't explain it but the characters all being changlings does not seem to be believable. They all act like LARPers who put on their D&D persona after work.

ipacho's review

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4.0

A must read for Changeling the Dreaming fans, and a very fine example of low fantasy related to faeries. Concepts like the Dauntain (faeries that lost their connection to their true selves and now hunt other faeries), and the Autumn People (Banal mortals wich their sole presence hurt and dispel faery magic) were astonishing in their time. The book has a lot of imaginative subplots, but most of them were resolved very easily or without any important consecuence, dimishing the previous tension created. However it’s nice, fast paced, and shows all the elemets that made C:tD one of the best RPG settings EVER.
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