Reviews for The Iron Throne

The average rating for The Iron Throne based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-06 00:00:00 Corey Feil While this is a simple tale, filled with standard fantasy tropes, the first half of the novel was entertaining enough, but I grew tired of it much too quickly, which is why I put it to the side for another day. After nearly ten months, I have never felt a desire to finish the story and finally decided it was time to part with it, so my copy of this book now resides at a local used bookstore and I am giving it the dreaded one star rating because I just didn't like it.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-05-11 00:00:00 J Ignacio Catala Of all of the D&D licensed novels that I have read (generally ranging in quality from "ok" to "hot garbage", with the original Dragonlance trilogy being a statistical outlier), who would have thought that the best one so far would be from what was probably one of the game's least popular settings (although Birthright was instantly one of my favorite settings when it came out in the far reaches of mid 90s past)? The Iron Throne packs a whole trilogy worth of story into its 500 pages, and reads like a high fantasy version of Game of Thrones. There is war, treachery, black magic, sex (way more, in fact, than I would have expected from a D&D novel), villains that just drive you crazy because you hate them so much, and of course enough monsters and undead baddies to stop an army (literally). And, much like Game of Thrones, no happy endings should be assumed for any particular character here.