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Legend of Huma, The

Version 1.0.0 Est Sularis Oth Mithas Author: Richard A. Knaak Long before the Companion’s cozy reunion goes awry in Otik’s tavern, before The War of the Lance, before the Cataclysm, there was a hero who created the first dragonlance. Throughout the Companion’s adventures and fight with the Dark Queen, we heard segments about this ancient, unparalleled knight who rode dragons into battle and who defeated the Dark Queen. For the first time, in The Legend of Huma, we hear the real, unvarnished story about his unlikely rise. Huma is a Knight of the Crown. He is not particularly advanced [...]

Frances Carden2025-03-20T18:36:11-07:00March 20th, 2025|Tags: book review, dragonlance, fantasy, legends, read, reading|

Crown of Wishes, A

Be Careful What You Dream Author: Roshani Chokshi While A Crown of Wishes is ostensibly the sequel to The Star-Touched Queen, it is truly a separate tale. Maya and Amar and their deadly kingdom with its interwoven threads of fate; its sardonic, flesh-eating horses; and its tree of deception, are a backdrop, and their roles here are minimal. Instead, this is Maya’s sister’s, Gauri’s, story about her hard-won journey to freedom. While Maya’s prophecy leads her into the underworld, Gauri’s story takes her from princess to prisoner, awaiting her death sentence. Like her sister, though, Gauri has a certain toughness. When [...]

Frances Carden2025-02-15T14:48:39-07:00February 15th, 2025|Tags: book review, fantasy, magic, myth, read, reading, romance|

I, Strahd: Memoirs of a Vampire

"I Am the Land." Author: P.N. Elrod In Vampire of the Mists, we gained a brief glimpse into the brutal history of Barovia’s vampire overlord, a history coated in carnage and torn by betrayal and perverted love. Following this history, P.N. Elrod gives the master of the land a chance to speak for himself, to tell the story of his fall from grace and the creation of the dark plane where demonic-demigods rule, distributing abyssal punishments to doomed peoples, and where the mists keep the trapped forever entombed. It all starts with Strahd, an aging warrior who is increasingly dissatisfied with [...]

Frances Carden2025-01-20T18:43:42-07:00January 20th, 2025|Tags: book review, D&D, dark fantasy, fantasy, horror, Ravenloft, read, reading|