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Title: Bloodwalk
Series: Forgotten Realms: The Wizards #2
Author: James Davis
Rating: 1 of 5 Stars
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 320
Format: Digital Edition
| Synopsis: |
A blood witch is planning on taking over a forest and then some towns, or something. She fools the local oracles who have foiled past plots by pretending to be their god. She raises necromantic forces to take over.
Concurrently, a man with angelic blood in him, a devotee to Hoar, the god of justice [you have NO idea how much I laughed at that] is a wandering justice dispensor. He wanders into the situation and is attempting to stop the blood witch.
Finally, you have 2 sisters, one an oracle, one a hunter who are both fighting to protect their town from complete and utter devastation. Enemies within and without make the job that much harder. Plus dead parents and all the baggage that means.
| My Thoughts: |
This was trash. It was a poor storyline, poorly executed and poorly written. Davis knows his grammar rules, thankfully, so there were no aggregious misuses of your/you’re, etc. But telling the story? My goodness. The motivation for everyone was clear as mud.
I completely skimmed the last 25% and STILL had a tough time finishing. It didn’t help that I was coming off a book that I also didn’t like, so this was like rubbing salt in the wound.
It did force me to decide if I wanted to continue this Wizards sub-series and the answer was a resounding “NO!”. Sometimes Forgotten Realms books are just junk and you have to chuck them out the window to keep your sanity.
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“Davis knows his grammar rules, thankfully”- oh dear dear dear- when this is the only compliment that you can give a book then something has gone seriously wrong.
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I know. I was really, really reaching with that but had nothing else even remotely good. It was a mess. At least “Last Good Man” told a coherent, make sense kind of story. This one didn’t…
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Oh gosh- that totally sucks- I will avoid.
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Ha. Do you even read Forgotten Realms books?
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haha well I won’t now 😉
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*Laughing*
Well, gotta be honest. You’re not missing out. Even the ones I like I know are low quality. Kind of like buying store brand “hot dogs” versus hebrew national. Now THOSE are good hot dogs [and they make GREAT chili dogs]
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hahaha yeah *definitely* not checking it out then! In the UK the “own brand” meat brands turned out to have been made of all kinds of meat… including horse meat 😉 Something to avoid if you ever find yourself in a British supermarket (somehow!)
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The chances of me ending up in Britain are probably about the same as you reading a FR novel. So we’re both good 🙂
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hahahahaa yes- and then somehow ending up in a tescos lol 😉
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I think the best thing to come out of this one is confirmation to skip this sub-series. Onto better, I’d say.
Started The Haunted Mesa last night and am really enjoying it so far.
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Yep, sometimes you just have to cut and run!
And glad to hear you’re enjoyed Haunted Mesa. Is it actually supernatural?
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It’s talked about it…and it’s eerie so far. We shall see.
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I found the early Forgotten Realms novels were pretty good. When it comes to Dungeons and Dragons shared worlds Dragonlance had better writers and better stories. Not to say there are still some stinkers there.
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Is Dragonlance the universe that Weis and Hickman write in? and was Dragonlance rolled into FR at some point? Or did it just stop?
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It is. It was not rolled into Forgotten Realms it just stopped. I guess when it came to gaming players had more freedom in Forgotten Realms. Dragonlance had too much set history. Probably made it a difficult world to play in.
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The thing about FR is that they use the books to explain the changes in-game. And they aren’t afraid to completely change the world. I know that they’ve combined the planet and decombined it, at least once, if not twice. And gods rising and falling at the drop of a hat and how magic works, yeah, everything is up for grabs. Probably makes things much easier for the gaming side, but it makes it a bit of a tumultuous ride in reading.
I know that robert and jarod [over at readingovertheshoulder.wordpress.com] have been reviewing dragon lance stuff. I might have to give a little more attention to their reviews now…
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Oof. With so many of these D&D world books out there, I imagine you have to sift through a lot of chaff to get to the one or two hidden gems.
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It is truly an epic battle that even the sorting hat would balk at. An epic battle of monkeys, seeing who can fling the most poo.
Yeah, that is what it seems like sometimes
😀
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Haha, I know exactly what you mean. I read through most of the old Star Wars EU after all 😛
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There’s nothing worse than trudging through an unejoyable book. Sometimes, when really forcing myself, I almost feel like reading is a punishment when I’ve been particularly bad.
Fortunately I’m reading a novel that, if you like non-stop laughs, and D&D style worlds (that don’t suck, honest!) might be right up your street.
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Hit me! I can always add it to the queue…
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Critical Failures by Robert Bevan. I’m re-reading the whole series just so I can give each book the glowing review they deserve.
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Cool. I just checked out “Robert Bevans” and see Critical Failures I-V and something with dice numbers. Are those the same things?
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Yea. Critical Failures 5 just came out. Part of the reason I am re-reading. The dice ones are short story collection (cleverly named 1D6, 2D6 and so on).
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Ok, so they are different things. Just wanted to make sure, as sometimes indies release the same things with different names, trying to fool the readers.
I’ve added the Critical Failures to my tbr, so I should be getting to it in about a year or so 😀
Thanks again!
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Yea, thankfully it’s not a re-release or a ‘go to my website to read the ending’.
I look forward to hearing your opinion.
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Hope you have the patience 😀
I’ll also try to make sure to link to you so everyone can praise/blame YOU for my selection 😉 Of course, that’s predicated on ME not forgetting…
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Haha I like the sound of that! I’m nothing if not patient.
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Yeah, there’s TONS of forgotten realms novels.. I only ever read one and didn’t like it! Sucks that you got another bad one.. hopefully that means the next one you pick will be good again 😀
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Forgotten Realms books get churned out like boxes of Cap’n Crunch cereal…
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2 in a row.. That must’ve hurt. Hopefully the next book you picked up was able to compensate for all this awfulness..
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I was trepidatious too. Thankfully, had a comfort read after so it was all good.
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