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A review by christopher_dilts
Canticle by R.A. Salvatore
3.0
Once again, I am punishing myself by trying to read these books of fantasy D&D pulp from my childhood. Why do I keep doing this?
It was definitely better than the last few of these books that I've read, which might be why I finished the novel so quickly. Then again I haven't really found any decent fantasy books that I've wanted to get into lately, and I do want to find a good fantasy story to enjoy. I don't think I'll be reading the other two books in this series, despite the fact that it helps pad my Goodreads Challenge. Enough, I say!
Overall, the story was moderately exciting and the characters mostly weren't completely cringe. And yet, and yet... a priest with a dart crossbow and a dwarf who dreams of being a druid and only yelling, "Oo Oi" as his main dialogue, really?
This would probably be an exciting action story for a teenage reader, which was perhaps its target audience anyways. I should stop setting myself such high expectations for D&D novels, which feel more like Black Library for Games Workshop, just another way to sell the more probably profitable merchandise such as the game books and models.
It was definitely better than the last few of these books that I've read, which might be why I finished the novel so quickly. Then again I haven't really found any decent fantasy books that I've wanted to get into lately, and I do want to find a good fantasy story to enjoy. I don't think I'll be reading the other two books in this series, despite the fact that it helps pad my Goodreads Challenge. Enough, I say!
Overall, the story was moderately exciting and the characters mostly weren't completely cringe. And yet, and yet... a priest with a dart crossbow and a dwarf who dreams of being a druid and only yelling, "Oo Oi" as his main dialogue, really?
This would probably be an exciting action story for a teenage reader, which was perhaps its target audience anyways. I should stop setting myself such high expectations for D&D novels, which feel more like Black Library for Games Workshop, just another way to sell the more probably profitable merchandise such as the game books and models.