# Genre: Shared World, Sword and Sorcery
# Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
# Publisher: Wizards of the Coast; Original edition
# Publication Date: August 4, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0786951893
# ISBN-13: 978-0786951895
# Author Website: Jak Koke
The Edge of Chaos is a great recent addition to the Forgotten Realms mythos, in which a spellscarred rouge and a female devotee of [...]
Posts under ‘Wizards of the Coast’
Book Review: The Edge of Chaos by Jak Koke
Book Review: City of Torment by Bruce R. Cordell
# Genre: Shared World, Sword and Sorcery
# Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
# Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
# Publication Date: September 1, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0786951842
# ISBN-13: 978-0786951840
# Author Website: Bruce R. Cordell
City of Torment, by award-winning game designer Bruce R. Cordell, is the second book in his Abolethic Sovereignty trilogy set in the Forgotten Realms. In [...]
Book Review: Obsidian Ridge by Jess Lebow
* Genre: Sword and Sorcery, Media Tie-In, Forgotten Realms
* ISBN: 0786947853
* ISBN-13: 9780786947850
* Format: Mass Market Paperback, 313pp
* Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
* Pub. Date: April 2008
* Series: Forgotten Realms Citadels Series, #2
In a writing style throwback to the adventure stories of Robert Howard and others of his generation of sword and sorcery writers � [...]
Book Review: Crypt of the Moaning Diamond by Rosemary Jones
* Genre: Fantasy, Shared World Fiction
* ISBN: 0786947144
* ISBN-13: 9780786947140
* Format: Mass Market Paperback, 320pp
* Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
* Pub. Date: November 2007
* Series: Dungeons Series
What happens when an writer who works for an opera company turns to writing fantasy? Does the story take on qualities of the epic? Do people take forever [...]
The Tiefling and the Gnome
This is a great little animation on one of the major changes in the Dungeons and Dragons Fourth Edition. Quite funny. Favorite character: The badger.
HT: Bruce Cordell
Book Review: The Orc King by R. A. Salvatore
* Genre: Fantasy, Shared World Fiction, Sword and Sorcery
* ISBN: 0786943408
* ISBN-13: 9780786943401
* Format: Hardcover, 346pp
* Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
* Pub. Date: September 2007
* Series: Forgotten Realms Transitions Series, #1
Picking [...]
Book Review: Shadowstorm by Paul S. Kemp
Genre: Forgotten Realms, Fantasy
ISBN: 0786943041
Pub. Date: August 2007
Series: Twilight War Series
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 352pp
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
A storm is brewing in the country of Sembia. Erevis Cale must use the powers of Mask to stop it. Civil War is tearing apart the merchant kingdom, and Tamlin, the Hulorn of Selgaunt has made a [...]
Book Review: Swords of Dragonfire by Ed Greenwood
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0786943394
Pub. Date: August 2007
Format: Hardcover, 352pp
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
See an interview with the author here.
Although I generally don�t like reviewing the second book in a trilogy, (middle books often seem to just be filler) I just had to write about Ed Greenwood�s latest contribution to the Forgotten Realms, Swords of Dragonfire.
The [...]
Book Review: The Howling Delve by Jaleigh Johnson
Genre: Fantasy, Shared World, Forgotten Realms
Pub. Date: July 2007
Series: The Dungeons Series
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 311pp
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
In The Howling Delve, a part of the Forgotten Realms Dungeon�s series, Jaleigh Johnson�s story has, unlike Erik Scott De Bie�s Depths of Madness, did not rely entirely on the dungeon as the setting. Set in [...]
Book Review: The Gossamer Plain by Thomas M. Reid
What happens when the alu-fiend Aliisza gets a conscience? Will she turn to good? Will the justice of Tyr change a creature half-human, half-demon? Interesting questions, especially when you consider that demons are, by their nature wholly evil. Such a plot allows for discussions on the nature of good and evil, and how choices affect [...]
