A review by romankurys
Black Wizards by Douglas Niles
4.0
Douglas Niles 2nd book of the Moonshae Trilogy did not disappoint. It was actually really good and pretty different from the first part. It felt like a whole new adventure with slight flashbacks to the original ones.
World of Forgotten Realms comes to life and makes me want to delve deeper.
I absolutely loved:
-multiple viewpoints, not just the "good guy" travelogue.
-in between Chapter short flashes of a god's mind. Once again, good and evil alike.
The only negative to this story was that is IS a travelogue at a core, which made me feel bored at about a half way point. There was no shortage of action, no "in-interesting" part that made me stop, if you will. It was just the knowledge that the hero will come here and discover this. Aha! Then hero will go there and discover that. Aha! The rinse/repeat.
Maybe I'm just growing a bit weary of fantasy travelogues? Who knows. Break or no break, I'm definitely going to read Part 3 in the future.
Definitely give this book a try, if for nothing else is to see how Forgotten Realms prose began :)
Roman "Ragnar"
World of Forgotten Realms comes to life and makes me want to delve deeper.
I absolutely loved:
-multiple viewpoints, not just the "good guy" travelogue.
-in between Chapter short flashes of a god's mind. Once again, good and evil alike.
The only negative to this story was that is IS a travelogue at a core, which made me feel bored at about a half way point. There was no shortage of action, no "in-interesting" part that made me stop, if you will. It was just the knowledge that the hero will come here and discover this. Aha! Then hero will go there and discover that. Aha! The rinse/repeat.
Maybe I'm just growing a bit weary of fantasy travelogues? Who knows. Break or no break, I'm definitely going to read Part 3 in the future.
Definitely give this book a try, if for nothing else is to see how Forgotten Realms prose began :)
Roman "Ragnar"