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peter_xxx's review against another edition
3.0
This is the second (pathfinder tale) book by [a:Howard Andrew Jones|510991|Howard Andrew Jones|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1414798754p2/510991.jpg] that I read, and even though I gave both of them 3 stars, this one is the better of the two. This is more than a three star book, but it lives not completely up to the standard for a 4 star book.
In this story we join Elayna and Drelm who together with a whole bunch of hirelings go out to find a beast that is running rampant through the river kingdoms. In the end there seems that the story is more complicated than that. I will not go further into detail to avoid spoilers.
The story has quite the pathfinder feel, which of course is excellent. When you read a pathfinder tale you want it to evoke the feeling of a pathfinder RPG campaign. The magic and the way magic works in pathfinder is very nicely incorporated in this book. I also felt that the book has a sort of western theme going on. A bunch of capable adventures set out to face a menace that threatens a frontier town. It even ends with the surviving members all leaving in the morning and meeting up one last time in the horse stables before riding of in the sunset.
In this story we join Elayna and Drelm who together with a whole bunch of hirelings go out to find a beast that is running rampant through the river kingdoms. In the end there seems that the story is more complicated than that. I will not go further into detail to avoid spoilers.
The story has quite the pathfinder feel, which of course is excellent. When you read a pathfinder tale you want it to evoke the feeling of a pathfinder RPG campaign. The magic and the way magic works in pathfinder is very nicely incorporated in this book. I also felt that the book has a sort of western theme going on. A bunch of capable adventures set out to face a menace that threatens a frontier town. It even ends with the surviving members all leaving in the morning and meeting up one last time in the horse stables before riding of in the sunset.
capellan's review against another edition
2.0
I found this a slog, largely I think due to a bloated cast of "just here to die as proof the bad guy is tough" extras who were never developed much beyond a name.
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