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This review is written with a GPL 3.0 license and the rights contained therein shall supersede all TOS by any and all websites in regards to copying and sharing without proper authorization and permissions. Crossposted at Bookstooge.booklikes.blogspot.wordpress.leafmarks.tumblr.com by express permission of this reviewer Title: Neversfall Series: The Citadels, Forgotten Realms Author: Ed Gentry Rating: 3 of 5 Stars Genre: SFF Pages: 274 Synopsis: An Elite Military Force and a Mercenary Company investigate why a Fortress in the south has gone silent. What ensues is a story of greed, betrayal and megalomania. My Thoughts: This "series" is linked only by an idea, much like the Rogue series I am also reading in the Forgotten Realms. Standalone novels really, but to be honest, I need that sometimes. However, this is your atypical "write to pay the electric bill" kind of book. The 2 "main" characters [one from the Elites, one from the Mercenaries] are dumb as dirt, nearly spineless and shrug off near fatal wounds like they are paper cuts. I realize there is magical healing in the FR books, but you do NOT get shot in the thigh with a crossbow bolt and then just go tearing around the top of a fortress running down all the badguys. I really liked the Fortress itself. Sadly, it falls to the writers ineptness and does not live up to its name of Neversfall. As far as I can tell, it falls to various factions at least 4-5 times. A lot of complaining; but competently written in the grammar department and with all the indie crap floating in the Literary Toilet these days, that in and of itself sets it high enough. The general bar has been lowered sadly. "… (mere)
 
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BookstoogeLT | 2 andre anmeldelser | Dec 10, 2016 |
This is the first in "The Citadels" which I have read and one wonders why it is part of that group. While the citadel is the location of the book it is almost a irrelevant to the story. I would have expected a book about a fortress to be far more aligned with the place. But anyway.

As with other reviewers I found this book difficult to get into. The setting isn't a well known region of the Realms so the author has the burden of adding lots of detail which bog down the story and keep it from moving quickly. Ultimately I think this is the major issue with the book. I don't know if the goal of this book was to get people to want learn about this region of the realms or not but it seems almost too distant and unfamiliar.

That being said there are dramatic elements and a level of mystery which keeps you going. It is interesting because it is a different area of the Realms but it requires the reader to want to get the background, of which there is much but not enough for all that is developed. It doesn't have the boring super high powered feel of some of the realms books.

I wouldn't say that the story is as predictable as other reviewers. There are classic archetypes in literature and good writers know this. Readers are looking for them and are often not surprised when they find them. Perhaps the mix is not to the liking of some readers.
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tillywern | 2 andre anmeldelser | May 20, 2012 |
I put this book down. The characters were cardboard cut outs. I kept waiting and reading for an overarching metaphor to spring out to compensate. It never happened. Put it down after 60 pages. Mind control ants wasn't interesting, and neither was a mysterious empty fort and lots of monsters and people fighting.

I've never been able to finish a forgotten realms book though. Read the Dragonlance books in junior high, but never could get through a forgotten realms.
 
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