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 Worst Book Series Ever Feb 07, 2009
By Isabeau
"SLH"
I have only read several chapters of Book One, and I cannot find it in me to finish. It exhausted me to make it through the first few chapters. Is this a D & D Campaign? Is this a WoW Campaign? Is this an Ever Quest Campaign? Newbies who have never played an RP game before have come up with better characters and quests than what is found in this book. As I read I was constantly wondering 'Where have I seen this character before?' It would then occur to me that I have seen this person in this fantasy movie with a red headed warrior princess, that person was on a fantasy television show, someone came from another fantasy movie, another person was in a book I read, I can go on and on about the characters. Only the characters in the book have different names.
Then the situations and character backgrounds! Besides being a jumbled mess that leaves you scratching your head going 'huh?' - they are just thrown in there, like someone has taken a hand full of blocks and just tossed them pell mell into the floor, expecting you to divine them like you are a mystic, able to read runes. From there you will find backtracking for additional explanation, and the snaking back around like a winding road to return you to the story where you were at before the backtracking, and your eyes cross and your head spins and you are wondering why you are still reading and you are totally hoping that it gets better ' but it doesn't ' As you rub your neck from the whiplash you are experiencing from this, it becomes evident that the situations and character backgrounds are again suspiciously similar to other fantasy novels or from other fantasy movies or fantasy television shows. But they are tweaked just enough so that they are not exact.
The Shadow isn't over Shandahar. The Shadow is over the writers who, while I am sure are probably good people at heart and in person, clearly, to me, struggled mightily to come up with something original and instead copied off of so many diverse fantasy bases that they simply created a very poor likeness of all of those fantasy bases and simply threw it together into a book like someone tossing a salad for the first time, hoping that it comes out edible. Needless to say I spit it out in my napkin and will be processing it in the recycle bin.
 Great first book! Feb 12, 2009
By borntoread
I have never been a D&D player, or even a fan of fantasy, but a friend recommended this book, and I very much enjoyed it. It has all the elements of a good story- likable characters, adventure, conflict, romance. Overall, this is a great start to a promising series.
Epic Novel for the "Big Screen" Feb 12, 2009
By R. L. Jetter
I have literally read (and own) hundreds of fantasy fiction books, including epics such as the Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia. These stories made it to the silver screen and I see the potential here for this piece. While reading the story you can imagine which actor and actresses could play their part. The characters are that well defined. Like the previously mentioned epics, the reader is able to go into the minds of both the "evil" and the "good" characters. The descriptive detail of the scenes and backrounds allow a visual which would be easily transferred to film. I have read the critiques thus far and remind the detractors that Rome wasn't built in a day. All books even the "Great Ones" were tweeked {and as well as for films}. I ask, does that take anything away from the writing? The obvious answer is no and that applies to Shadow Over Shandahar and it's Sequel Warrior of Destiny as well. To potential readers I say this..... If you want to read a novel with complexity of plot and character, this is a must read and a definite must have for a collector.
 Like reading someone's D&D campaign Nov 13, 2008
By C. Amodio
"krilia"
I admit I may revise my viewpoint once I finish more of this book (I plan to give it at least 50 more pages), but so far, I feel like I'm reading someone's fairly cliched Dungeons and Dragons campaign. For example, the main character is the younger of a pair of twins, who's father has never forgiven her for 'killing' her mother.
One of the first things that happens is that her master (she's a wizard, or as she refers to it "magic-user") dies violently and she doesn't absolutely nothing to find out why - that might have derailed her joining the rest of her party, I mean, the rest of the characters.
a great novel May 16, 2008
By Jon Sutherland
"Akri Azerial"
For any one who has ever been a fan of novel series such as the lord of the rings, or sword of truth, or even the wheel of time(my personal faverite) the Shandahar duo is a safe bet to keep you up into the wee hours of the night hatin the thought of putting the books down. This is the first in the Duo set that i bought from Ted Crim. After he promised me that as a fan of Fantasy novel i wouldnt be disapointed in the novels. i bought the set, and i have to say in the few years i've met ted and in the last year that i've been friends with him i've called him alot of things but i have never called him a liar. this book will caught you in a whirlwind of storys. with all the different personialitys in this book you will be keep on your toes wonderin what will happen next. I would recommand this novel to anyone who enjoys reading. and would like to escape the real world for a couple of hours. like i do.
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