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| Alaundo |
Posted - 10 Jul 2008 : 22:03:29
Well met
This is a Book Club thread for Sentinelspire (Book 4 of The Citadels), by Mark Sehestedt. Please discuss chapters 30 - 42 herein. |
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| Alisttair |
Posted - 03 Feb 2009 : 17:11:08
I enjoyed this book thoroughly. I greatly enjoyed all the twists, like Ulaan being an assassin, Chereth being the Old Man, etc... glad that you had the extra pages to make it as good as it was :) |
| Kyrene |
Posted - 07 Nov 2008 : 07:35:36
While I really liked this book for the most part, I felt the ending dragged on-and-on a little. This was not helped by the impression that for all his 'might' Chereth could only muster two types of attacks. Attack by vine, using his enchanted staff, or attack by mini-fireball. The whole fight atop the Tower of the Sun just took too long with too many periods of stalemate or ‘apparent defeat’ of Berun and company.
I really looked forward to the finale, especially after the showcasing of Berun’s killing talent we were given as he infiltrated the fortress, but for all that it fell a little flat when he was faced with his former master. I am happy that he didn’t survive, as this allows Lewan—who for the most part was a damsel in distress—to grow up and fill some big boots in the future. Though I didn’t like Lewan much, I am glad he and Ulaan can walk away from this.
Altogether, not as good as Frostfell, but in my opinion the second best of The Citadels series. |
| Hoondatha |
Posted - 28 Oct 2008 : 03:14:51
Well, I got stuck in an airport for seven hours over the weekend and read both this and Swords of Dragonfire in one sitting. Boy THERE was a change of tone...
Overall, I liked it. Not as good as Frostfell, but still good, and it's beating the pants off of Obsidian Ridge (which was the third book in my bag and the one I'm currently reading) quality-wise.
I really liked Sauk. If more followers of Malar were like him, Faerun would have a lot less trouble with that church. It was interesting to see a follower of a CE deity who had a rigid moral code and who was still totally believable. After all, evil doesn't mean stupid, or even dishonorable.
I agree that Lewan was foolish not to suspect that his personal slave was at the very least a spy, if not the full-blown elite assassin she turned out to be, but I still liked their relationship. There's something about the nature of trust being addicting that's very interesting to me. Watching how people (both fictional and in real life) who have never experienced trust taste it for the first time and discover how it completely changes their lives. It's a theme that fits very well with the idea of a bunch of assassins, who trust each other about as much as your average drow.
The one thing I would have liked to know at the end was whether her sister survived the end fight or not. Mark, if you're around, do you think you could enlighten us?
My last comment was that I liked how the killoren were handled. Overall, I hate how all the 3e books introduced race after poorly-thought-out race into Core, and then a bunch of them seemed to get equally-improbably shoe-horned into the Realms. Here they show up, but they're recruits from another plane/prime world that the druid brought in to be his own muscle, and not actually natives of the Realms. That's much more fitting than trying to hand-wave them into existence. |
| avaz |
Posted - 07 Oct 2008 : 15:31:02
Just finished this book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. One of my favorite realms books of the year!
The characters were really excellent - none appeared cardboard or one dimensional. Never thought that I would like reading about a follower of Malar so much! How the characters reacted to different situations felt very real and the story kept me guessing on who were the antagonists until the very end.
I liked Frostfell, but I really thought Sentinelspire was something great. Mark, I hope you keep writing in the realms - very nice indeed.
On a funnier note, I was re-reading the beginning and caught some foreshadowing on what would happen with the tiger/lizard at the end of the book. Nicely done!
Great job and hats off on this novel! |
| The Red Walker |
Posted - 24 Aug 2008 : 15:47:34
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Originally posted by hahahax
The book is really good. The only thing I'm not too sure about is Berun. He could have been so much more if the killer part of him had a bigger role. Still good tho, anyone knows if Mark's got any other novels coming?
I am keeping my fingers crossed that WOTC gives/already has given him one of the new "Wilds" series! |
| hahahax |
Posted - 24 Aug 2008 : 14:28:57
The book is really good. The only thing I'm not too sure about is Berun. He could have been so much more if the killer part of him had a bigger role. Still good tho, anyone knows if Mark's got any other novels coming? |
| MerrikCale |
Posted - 12 Aug 2008 : 03:02:45
I liked this book a lot. Lewan and Ulaan were interesting. Sauk was great. I always loved Malar as a "bad guy" deity |
| dwarvenranger |
Posted - 03 Aug 2008 : 03:50:57
I enjoyed this book, thank you Mr. Sehestedt. Of course I'm a big ranger fan. It was nice to see a follower of Malar that was not a were-something-or-the-other and had a code that followed more of a the stong survive mentality instead of destroy all civilization. |
| The Red Walker |
Posted - 16 Jul 2008 : 18:40:28
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Originally posted by Alaundo
Well met
This is a Book Club thread for Sentinelspire (Book 4 of The Citadels), by Mark Sehestedt. Please discuss chapters 30 - 42 herein.
Qiut a bit going on here for sure. So the Old Man is actually Berun's master Cereth(sp?)He killed the master of asassains and has been in charge of Sentinelspire for years. So its not the Old Man whos eggs have cracked, its a crazy old treehuggin' overzealous druid who is going to destroy civilazation. I would laugh , but the old druid actually thinks he is smarter than the rest of Faerun and even has a plan to re-populate the world. And I thought Szass Tam had a high opinion of his own importance!
And poor Lewam keeps getting outsmarted and more confused as this goes on, how did he never suspect that his "servant" could be a spy until so late? Berun really sheltered the boy overmuch! |
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