- Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Wizards of the Coast; Reprint edition (30 April 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0786936460
- ISBN-13: 978-0786936465
- Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 2.7 x 17.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 502,036 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The third book in Ed Greenwood’s first Forgotten Realms trilogy.
Author Ed Greenwood concludes the story of Shandril of Highmoon in this third volume of the Shandril’s Saga trilogy. This mass market edition of the trade paperback features new cover art by Jon Sullivan.
AUTHOR BIO: A resident of Ontario, Ed Greenwood created the Forgotten Realms setting nearly 30 years ago and has written hundreds of novels, articles, and game products in the setting. His most recent novel is Elminster’s Daughter.
Author Ed Greenwood concludes the story of Shandril of Highmoon in this third volume of the Shandril’s Saga trilogy. This mass market edition of the trade paperback features new cover art by Jon Sullivan.
AUTHOR BIO: A resident of Ontario, Ed Greenwood created the Forgotten Realms setting nearly 30 years ago and has written hundreds of novels, articles, and game products in the setting. His most recent novel is Elminster’s Daughter.
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Format:Paperback
Hand of Fire is the final book in the trilogy that is 'Shadril’s saga'. If you have not already read the first two books -Spellfire and Crown of Fire- you should read them before this one.
In this the concluding chapter of the tale we find the once humble kitchen maid once again beset by seemingly countless enemies who wish to either destroy her or claim her spellfire as their own. However, Shandril Shessair is no longer so humble, and her spellfire is gaining in strength with each passing day, but as it does her control over it seems to be becoming less and less.
With the fear of potential enemies all around, and the fear of the budding power growing inside her, Shandril and Narm race across the face of Faerun in the desperate hope that they can find refuge in the city of Silverymoon before her enemies can claim her, or her spellfire can erupt with enough force to threaten the entire realms.
In this the concluding chapter of the tale we find the once humble kitchen maid once again beset by seemingly countless enemies who wish to either destroy her or claim her spellfire as their own. However, Shandril Shessair is no longer so humble, and her spellfire is gaining in strength with each passing day, but as it does her control over it seems to be becoming less and less.
With the fear of potential enemies all around, and the fear of the budding power growing inside her, Shandril and Narm race across the face of Faerun in the desperate hope that they can find refuge in the city of Silverymoon before her enemies can claim her, or her spellfire can erupt with enough force to threaten the entire realms.
Hand of Fire is a good conclusion to this trilogy, and an impressive growth in writing style since the work in Spellfire, which did have some quite shoddy dialogue at times.
The one negative I did find with this book was that I found it did switch between lots of different characters in individual chapters, which I personally found to break up the flow of the plot, and the general immersion factor.
Overall this is a good book, and certainly if you enjoyed the previous two you will enjoy this one. The ending is both good, and a little poor at the same time, with some of the characters having nicely handled conclusions, but I felt the way Narm was handled at the end was a little lame, but only a little.
Don't let my small negative points put you off from reading this, as they are only small points in an otherwise engaging read.
Format:Paperback
The final book in the series is mainly suited for people who read the first two books and want to finish the trilogy. It was abit disappointing and worst than the previous books. It is below par of what I expected from the author.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I read this awahile ago, but basically it's "supposed" to be the 3rd and final installment in the "Spellfire" series (I use that term loosely as you'll probably understand why).
It completely deviates from pretty much any semblance of what has happened in the first and in particular the second books in the series (the first two being by differeing authors to this 3rd one "Hand of Fire".
This 3rd book is a complete mis-mash (or t feels like it to me most of the time)..mostly gathering around a caravan "espace to freedom" journey.
Where the heroine is completely stressed out of her mind with her lover trying to quite fruitlessly calm her, whilst the "good heroes n powers" are little/nowhere to be seen at all.
Alongside an ever streaming sequence of mercenarys and dark wizards eager to capture her for precious bountys etc and all inevitably ending up the same way...
The two most critical and quite sad things about this book is 9which deviuates from teh normally impressive works of its author) are:
i) Completely ignores Books 1 and in particular events in 2, no mention of any baby or anything such...such as the heroines newfoun strength n will to survive (she's basically a vulnerable mental wreck in this one).
ii) One of the other reviewers a few years ago mentioned something about it being simply a "buildup central charcters to such a degree and yet ending it in a typically expected High end explosive of magical spells n destructive special effects for everyone concerned.
essentially once the spell duels set in/reach theyreclimax, the charcaters so long having been spent on them throughout the book developing them just goes "poof" and thats it (happens constantly trhoughout the book).
I don't particularly recommend this book as a buy, I would believe that its maye more suitable to either lend from a friend/library or buy a good quality cheaper second hand one so tha you can sell it on (afterwards if you wanted to) after youve read it.
It's a personally saying, complete disappointment for Spellfire/Shandril Shesair fans...think Ed greenwood does many good works...but this isn't one of them alas. Sorry matey
It completely deviates from pretty much any semblance of what has happened in the first and in particular the second books in the series (the first two being by differeing authors to this 3rd one "Hand of Fire".
This 3rd book is a complete mis-mash (or t feels like it to me most of the time)..mostly gathering around a caravan "espace to freedom" journey.
Where the heroine is completely stressed out of her mind with her lover trying to quite fruitlessly calm her, whilst the "good heroes n powers" are little/nowhere to be seen at all.
Alongside an ever streaming sequence of mercenarys and dark wizards eager to capture her for precious bountys etc and all inevitably ending up the same way...
The two most critical and quite sad things about this book is 9which deviuates from teh normally impressive works of its author) are:
i) Completely ignores Books 1 and in particular events in 2, no mention of any baby or anything such...such as the heroines newfoun strength n will to survive (she's basically a vulnerable mental wreck in this one).
ii) One of the other reviewers a few years ago mentioned something about it being simply a "buildup central charcters to such a degree and yet ending it in a typically expected High end explosive of magical spells n destructive special effects for everyone concerned.
essentially once the spell duels set in/reach theyreclimax, the charcaters so long having been spent on them throughout the book developing them just goes "poof" and thats it (happens constantly trhoughout the book).
I don't particularly recommend this book as a buy, I would believe that its maye more suitable to either lend from a friend/library or buy a good quality cheaper second hand one so tha you can sell it on (afterwards if you wanted to) after youve read it.
It's a personally saying, complete disappointment for Spellfire/Shandril Shesair fans...think Ed greenwood does many good works...but this isn't one of them alas. Sorry matey
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