Dave Gross has created two memorable characters in Varian Jeggare and Radovan. With their introduction in this story we meet two characters that I hope will give us years of additional adventures.
This story serves as a prelude to Prince of Wolves and should be read by anybody who enjoyed that novel or who may be thinking of picking that novel up.
As somebody who has literally hundreds of the various D&D novels put out first by TSR and then by WotC, I find this offering from Paizo to be a more mature venture into the genre. This is worlds ahead of everything I previously enjoyed from TSR/WotC.
And when I say I am a fan of those novels, my collection begins with the Gord novels from Greyhawk and goes through all of the various campaign settings. I adored those books and with this work when combined with Prince of Wolves, I find the same sense of wonder I felt when I first picked up The Crystal Shard.
The only thing I can add to this is I certainly hope we one day get more details on the Henderthane affair.
