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Title: Silverfall: Stories of the Seven Sisters (Forgotten Realms) by Ed Greenwood ISBN: 0786913657 Publisher: TSR Hobbies Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.05
Rating: 1
Summary: The worst book I've ever read
Comment: While I really liked many of Ed Greenwood's contributions to the Forgotten Realms, "Silverfall" is the ultimate failure. The whole story - when one can call it a story at all - is implausible from the first to the last word. The charactes have not even the faintest depth. The Seven Sisters are the Chosen of Mystra, and are therefore beings of tremendous power. Each of the sisters usually has her very own personality and her very own motivations, as well as being quite intelligent and sometimes even wise. In "Silverfall" they are simply a bunch of arrogant fools. They are running about without rhyme or reason and rush headlong into every trap and every danger set for them, missing not even a single one. Half of the time they are surviving their arrogance and foolishness only because they are the great and mighty Chosen of Mystra. The other half of the time it's sheer luck and one must wonder if they are secretly also the Chosen of Tymora (the goddess of luck). Why the Seven Sisters must constanly be unclad is also beyond me ... but that's another story. Everyone who "knows" the Seven Sisters from other sources should give this book a wide berth and keep them in mind as they deserve it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Realms fans could do better, but overall it's an OK ride.
Comment: I love Greenwood, especially his character creations, but this book is, at times, awkward reading and a bit of a hodge-podge work. If you want to read about the famous Seven Sisters, it's worth it just for that. But as a novel, it's got a weird storyline that jumps from scenario to scenario, passing "the baton" as another reviewer said, from one Sister to the next. The beginning starts off slow, and I nearly gave up on it, but it finally picks up. Greenwood does impart that Realms flavor to the story, and again, the biggest draw is seeing these fantastical characters. Alot of magic and description of spells and gruesome death going on, and sometimes it seems too much. Too many adjectives in one sentence. But, I'm not sorry to have read it, overall, it was enjoyable. I wouldn't recommend this as a first Realms reading, else you might get turned-off to the series. Several cameo appearances by famous Realms folk. Too much at once for someone new to Toril. But, for those who've read Forgotten Realms before, I think it's worth checking out.
Rating: 1
Summary: Ed Greenwood's descent into senility
Comment: I'm truly sorry to report this, but this is easily the worst book I have ever read, especially when you consider that I loved all of his other books. Spellfire was his best, dwarfing all his other works, but this book seemed to be written by a child, with seven uninteresting plotlines pasted together with flour and water rather than crazy glue.
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Title: Stormlight (Forgotten Realms: The Harpers) by Ed Greenwood ISBN: 0786905204 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Hand of Fire (Forgotten Realms: Shandril's Saga, Book 3) by Ed Greenwood ISBN: 0786927607 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Beyond the High Road (Forgotten Realms: The Cormyr Saga, Book 2) by Troy Denning ISBN: 078691436X Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Death of the Dragon (The Cormyr Saga) by Troy Denning, Ed Greenwood ISBN: 0786918632 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Temptation of Elminster by Ed Greenwood ISBN: 0786914270 Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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