This book is quite interesting and I like the world that has been built. There are a few things that are a little over the top, like the mist, ash rain, and red sun. There is a lot of mysteriousness that isn’t explained in this first book. There is a really nice end to the first book, but it leaves things a little open for the next two. I like the characters and their development, and I also like the story.
This is set in the D&D universe of Icewind Dale and all that follows from there. I didn’t much care for the book as the characters are all over the top, and they don’t develop at all. I was amused by the assassin, but not much more than that. The story didn’t make up for the lack of character development either. The one good thing about this book is that it has interesting action sequences, but that is about it.
This book was a fantastic ending to the series. There were a good number of twists that I didn’t see coming, but had been shown as building up the entire time. I really enjoyed the book, mainly for the story. I found a good number of the characters to be a little shallow and immature. Only a few had good development and those that did didn’t have much about them really change. They simply became more of what they were at the beginning of the story. I greatly appreciate the work that went into the world building and especially the lore building. Unlike many of the worlds that have been build before this world has a lot of the change in the stories. The real events got lost and changed with time.
This book has everything starting to come together. The action starts to focus on Southmarch, and things start going very wrong. Most of the big reveals have happened by this point, and now it is just resolution from here on out. I enjoy the stories of the non-humans much more than the humans. Most humans in this story are very immature.
The story really takes off in this book, with characters being spread all over the world. The world also goes through a lot of building where the gods are concerned. The stories of the gods are really well done in that there are multiple versions that have gone through many changes over time. There were revolutions and people bent the dogma to their own needs, making the topic of the gods in the stories change from place to place, even though it was all based on real events that happened thousands of years before. I also like that things older than the gods are alluded to, but not discussed in detail.
This book is quite good, but the characters are a little shallow. There isn’t too much changing about them, and they don’t seem terribly human. The story however is very good. I like the interactions between the races in the world, and the way the gods are displayed. They are Olympian style with the gods having very human drives.
I hadn’t realized how much of a study this was until I listened to this lecture series. I’m surprised and impressed that so many devout people would get together to discuss and debate their religions and how they evolved over time. The evolution in many cases seems to dismiss the legitimacy of the current incarnation. The changes over time were really cool to listen to, especially when it came to the Americanization of many of the religions.
This is out of the Ringworld universe, but doesn’t touch on Ringwold itself. The story is focused on the point in Earth history that the PAC renews contact with Earth. Some of the humans become protectors and then have to prepare for the PAC invasion. The story is decent, but the world building in the series is what this book is really about.
This book was just as good as the first one, if not better. The world is greatly expanded in this one and the story progresses in an unpredictable, but wonderful way. I really enjoy where the action is going and the way the world is coming together. I really hope that some of the big questions in the world will be answered at the end of the last book, but I fully expect there to be a huge lingering question at the end of the series with just a small part of the curtain pulled back. I don’t expect all the answers, but a few of them would be nice. I expect no big resolution.
It's an Exciting World 