The curse began when a severed foot was found in the court.

[oddmonster]

Rising Tides (The Threat from the Sea, Book 1) by Mel Odom:
Her face took on a more somber look. "Know too, that there are those who would stop you in your journey," she said. "They fear you, fear what you will become, and with good cause because your life will touch the lives of many. There is a darkness out there, greater than any darkness you've

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[katikat]

BTW, if you like fishes and stuff going nuts, you should try Karel Capek's The War with the Newts. It's a Czech sci-fi book.

[oddmonster]

Thanks for the rec!

[soulswallo]

I... don't know what to say about this. I mean... whaaaa?

(much like a recent tentacle erotica book I reviewed, I think your review is probably FAR more interesting than the book. So, *thumbs up*)

[oddmonster]

Thank you, ma'am. Honestly, if there had been tentacle sex in this I would not have been the least bit surprised.

This is why I hardly ever read tie-in novels

[ext_1249606]

I genuinely do believe that the poor hacks who are galley-slaved into churning these things out for peanuts go gibberingly insane, shackled to their word processors in the pits of despair :-)

The only thing you can do when you're contractually obligated to turn out three hundred pages of "Make sure you add in this check list of monsters and favourite characters" is make it as over the top as possible, and I think this person did so with gusto.

I'm sorry, but even a port city attacked by jellyfish has me less than quaking in my boots (probably why they threw in the entire monster manual of aquatic beasties). Unless these are, I dunno, 100-foot tall amphibious jellyfish whose tentacles secret acids that can erode stone walls or something?

Also, the idea of a sharkshifter is awesome, and I feel strangely sympathetic to the wussy pirate who only wants to read romance novels and wear a leather apron (never you mind, pet, I'm sure there's a nice boy out there just for you).

:-)

Re: This is why I hardly ever read tie-in novels

[oddmonster]

Oh there wasn't remotely a quaking-in-my-boots moment so much as there was a bunch of gobsmacked moments at just how many aquatic creatures one author could find to attack a port city with. I mean, the point at which you have to get out Ye Olde Creature Manual to follow along is possibly the moment that things go over the top.

Although the whole attack on Waterdeep section would've been awesome to read with Led Zeppelin playing in the background. It was that kind of swirly mayhem.

The wussy pirate was quite clearly in need of a good breeches-ripping interlude from a bigger, more-secure-in-his-manhood pirate. It would've turned into an epic tie-in book at that point.