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A review by vittorioseg
The Queen of Stone by Keith Baker
2.0
This is for the audiobook.
The audiobook is quite nice, with a great variety of voices and a cadence that its quite noteworthy. Bernadette Dune is a great actress and her ability to inflect emotion and this sense of dread during the second half was incredibly entertaining. But sadly, in the end, the story is still very bland and the characters are more like props than actual characters.
Many times (as is usual with Keith Baker) the decisions and actions are more about marketing the world and the classes than actual good drama. Decisions are constantly made that, even with the explanation, look insane or inane, which is less about don't actually make sense and more than the author honestly can't create prose that engages on the reader and his plot construction is wonky at best. All in all, it is a good novel if you want ideas of how to write a session in Eberron following the guidelines of Kaith Baker, but as a stand-alone novel, it would be just a waste of time.
The audiobook is quite nice, with a great variety of voices and a cadence that its quite noteworthy. Bernadette Dune is a great actress and her ability to inflect emotion and this sense of dread during the second half was incredibly entertaining. But sadly, in the end, the story is still very bland and the characters are more like props than actual characters.
Many times (as is usual with Keith Baker) the decisions and actions are more about marketing the world and the classes than actual good drama. Decisions are constantly made that, even with the explanation, look insane or inane, which is less about don't actually make sense and more than the author honestly can't create prose that engages on the reader and his plot construction is wonky at best. All in all, it is a good novel if you want ideas of how to write a session in Eberron following the guidelines of Kaith Baker, but as a stand-alone novel, it would be just a waste of time.