Reviews for The Chaos Curse

The average rating for The Chaos Curse based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-08-26 00:00:00 Emilio Castellano Well, it's an ending. I wasn't sure what to expect after the Big Bad was defeated in book 4 of 5. Overall, I liked how the threat of the first book's Chaos Curse took a twist into an entirely different type of threat to the Edificant Library. I also very much liked that Cadderly was de-powered since the prior book. I did not care for the dearth of new character development, with two exceptions: Pikel (he of the multiple TBI's) gaining some minor new druidic abilities, and Cadderly's final disposition, which I am not convinced fits with his character in the rest of the series, but at least draws the pentalogy to a satisfying close and limits the number of characters that we might see in future books (I only know by heresay of the Bouldershoulder brothers showing up again in Salvatore's later Forgotten Realms novels). As in book 4, the word count is truncated compared to other Forgotten Realms novels published to date, so much so that even with a sparse font and page margins, they had to include 30 pages of preview of the next Drizzt novel to get the paperback thickness up to standard for this series.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-07-18 00:00:00 Edward Beadle I'll just review the whole Cleric Quintet series here. Overall rating: 2.5 First things first, this is not a book, this is a D&D campaign. So much so that you can clearly see the moments when the characters rolled a natural 20 or natural 0. As a D&D campaign it is quite entertaining, but as a book, well.. Even the detailed fight scenes become repetitive at some point (which, again would be great at the playing table). Although it's pretty fun when you're like "Hey! I know that spell!" :D SPOILERS AHEAD Some things I liked about this book is its depiction of different PC classes. I never quite understood the Druids' aversion to the unnatural until I read the Canticle. The clerics are also well represented, though I still dislike them in their rigidity. Cadderly, by far, was the most infuriating character. He started out as bright and inquisitive adventurer, a cleric more by upbringing than calling. And by the end of the last book he had fully transitioned into a fanatic believer. TL;DR A nice D&D campaign story to listen to, bu I'd not waste my time reading it