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Welcome to Waterdeep Here, everything imaginable is for sale. Even dreams can be purchased if one is willing to pay the price. When the sale of dream spheres threatens the life of his newfound half sister, Danilo Thann joins forces with Arilyn Moonblade to uncover the source of this deadly trade. Their search leads them into the dark heart of Waterdeep, and to personal secrets that could destroy them both. Elaine Cunningham returns to the City of Splendors and the characters that made her one of the most popular Forgotten Realms authors. |
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When I first started reading this novel I felt it was pretty mediocre but it eventually turns into something a bit more. Elaine Cunningham does an excellent job in giving us a sense of all of the intrigue and secrets in the city of Waterdeep. Admittedly some of her plot devices are a bit poor but the overall sense of the novel works pretty well. You get thrown into the mystery that Danilo Thann and Arilyn are trying to solve. They follow one lead to another only to find out for the most part that they were completely wrong with almost all of their assumptions. For me this was the part of the novel that I really enjoyed, the adventurers trying to figure out exactly what's going on while they're being attacked left and right from unknown parties. While not an entirely original concept, Cunningham's fast pacing makes it an exciting read. My only complaint is there's too many false leads and the conclusion when it comes seems to pop in from nowhere. At the end of the novel the main characters seemingly manage to figure out EVERY SINGLE SUBPLOT in the story despite the fact that none of them were even close to the truth in their assumptions for the majority of the book. I would rate this a pretty decent read for any Forgotten Realms fan. Readers new to Forgotten Realms will probably find this an easy novel to get into as the only thing that might be unclear is what the Harpers aside from some secret organisation. It appears that this is not the first novel Elaine has written with these characters, but it's the first novel I've read from her and it stands by itself pretty well.
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