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Darkwalker on Moonshae (Forgotten Realms: The Moonshae Trilogy, #1)

Douglas Niles

Start date: October 2, 2020

Finish date: October 29, 2020

Discussion: Forgotten Realms Reading

Why we're reading this: First Forgotten Realms Novel Published (1987)
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Oct 10, 2018 Nikki ~ The Nocturnal Bookworm rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, series, books-i-own-read, forgotten-realms

Good:
A nice example of high fantasy
A wonderful beginning to the world of the forgotten realms
Robyn is awesome

Bad:
Tristan annoyed the hell out of me

Overall enjoyable and I look forward to reading the rest of the trilogy

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Oct 20, 2020 Raechel rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, fiction, rpg, forgotten-realms

A fun, trope-y fantasy novel about a prince with a magic sword and an evil... something threatening the land. This book is good for what it is, but by modern fantasy standards it's not that great.

Tristan is annoying, although he does get a little better. Robyn is honestly too good for him.

There's some serious issues with grammar and details in the book (spelling mistakes, the king's name changes, the symbol on a banner changes, etc). But if you're looking for a classic D&D adventure, this is a g ...more

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Dec 31, 2020 Francisca Viegas rated it did not like it

Shelves: fantasy, read-in-english, dnf, 2020

DNF @ 25%
Yeah sorry no. A bit too flavourless. A quarter of the way through and nothing interesting happened. I just don’t care enough.

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Nov 29, 2009 Carrie rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1st-in-a-series, forgotten-realms, 23-for-23, new-to-me-author, spring-tbr, 24-for-24, read-my-shelves, high-fantasy, mini-tbr-2, series-overload

Loved this book, I can't believe it I had it on my back burner/did not finish shelf for so long. ...more

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