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No, not even after reading it a second time
Posted by: Mr_Bamboo on Jan 17, 2013 at 03:29:09 AM

Having read Shadowbane before rereading Shadowbane: Eye of Justice, I found the latter made more sense because I spent less time wondering what the author was talking about.

I did not spend more time thinking how much better the book was for knowing various facts about which I'd been unaware in the first place. I merely noted all the irritating instances of "coin", "lass", "lad", "folk" and "roil" which I'd missed on the previous occasion.

I noted the utter misuse of " 'ere" for "ere" as if the word was from "here" (which is isn't); or "fop" being used of a woman and "doxy" of a man; or "sir" being used as a title with Kalen Dren's surname. (He'd be "Sir Kalen".) Or the use of "rhetorical" when it meant nothing of the sort; or a bunch of thugs being called "assassins" when they were nothing

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We're all Shadowbane
Posted by: Mr_Bamboo on Dec 30, 2012 at 06:37:47 PM

When I go DVD shopping, I often buy DVDs out of curiosity rather than out of some great desire to actually watch the DVD in question. For example, I watched Premium Rush the other day, a movie which I would not otherwise have considered; but in China you take what you can get.

Until just recently, I'd never read any of the D&D novels. I've seen them in the bookshops for years, but have never been tempted. But I finally decided to bite the bullet and buy some for my Kindle. I started with Shadowbane: Eye of Justice (EoJ).

This was, in truth, a mistake. Because I did not do my research beforehand, I didn't realise that I was starting in media res, and had got a novel in which the characters already had well-established pasts. At best for the novice reader, EoJ supplied broad hints about events

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