Reviews - Dungeons & Dragons: Spelljammer: Memory's Wake

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Dungeons & Dragons: Spelljammer: Memory's Wake

Django Wexler

4.0 AVERAGE

nostradamnus's review against another edition

adventurous

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

fieldofhats's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This novel is a fun romp with entertaining characters through a very unique fantasy world. Spelljammer is weird and alien, and Django Wexler captures it well.

The plot is good, especially the character moments with Axia struggling with her memory loss,

and at the end when she actually gets answers and gets to talk to Blacktongue.

The actual pirating action was fine, but largely uninteresting in my opinion.

The other characters were alright, but I didn’t feel like they were fleshed out enough. I loved the prominent queer relationship of Kori and Nia, but the other characters all fell very short for me.

The writing style was also not anything special. The only other book by Wexler that I’ve read was his novel for Magic the Gathering’s Ikoria set back in 2020; it was good for what it was, but the actual writing didn’t impress me at all. Wexler steps it up with this novel, but it’s still just okay. It’s serviceable, but not impressive.

Overall, it’s a fine addition to the D&D literary world. It is slightly concerning that there were only two non-Drizzt D&D novels that came out in 2024 and both were mediocre, but here’s to next year at least!

Started in Emma’s summer dorm at Stu East while playing with Buggie, ended at Books a Million(?)