Product Description

Marked for Death begins a new epic trilogy set in the world of Eberron, Wizards of the Coast's newest D&D® campaign setting. Author Keith Baker's proposal for the exciting world of Eberron was chosen from 11,000 submissions, and he is the co-author of the Eberron Campaign Setting, the RPG product that launched the setting. The Eberron world will continue to grow through new roleplaying game products, novels, miniatures, and electronic games.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #175927 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-01
• Released on: 2005-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 384 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780786936106
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
MATT FORBECK has written and designed games for more than 14 years, for which he has garnered several awards. His most recent title for Wizards of the Coast was Secret of the Spiritkeeper, the kickoff novel for the Knights of the Silver Dragon™ young reader series for Mirrorstone™ Books.

Customer Reviews

Repetitive
While the action scenes are fairly well written the plot leaves something to be desired. This romp though the Mournlands seems to be stuck in a loop as Kandler and his shifter sidekick repeatedly track his adopted daughter and rescue her, only to have her kidnapped again.
While it might be useful as introduction to some of the elements of the Eberron world, the characters and plot are not developed enough to make a great novel.

A pretty good book
This was a pretty good book. Matt Forbeck does a good job of describing the battle scenes, and he does a good job with the character Kandler. However, the saving and losing and recapturing and re-kidnapping of Espre gets a bit tedious. Other than that, it is a good book. I really liked the part with the deathless wizard.

Strong Start
Marked for Death is an entertaining and action-packed story--which is exactly what one should expect when reading a novel based in a D&D gameworld. The main characters are well portrayed and the author does an excellent job writing dialogue for the villains--the antagonists have reasonable motivations (and explanations) for their actions which is something you rarely see in a genre novel such as this.

The only flaws in the book are its length and a rough shift in tone from the novel's start to its end. In terms of length, much of the action repeats itself, as other reviewers have noted. In terms of tone, the first (and much stronger) half of the novel feels like the classic western, "The Searchers." This portion is a grim, grounded story that really grabs the reader. In the second half of the story, however, the action goes rather widescreen echoing one of the big action scenes of Attack of the Clones.

The two halves just don't fit well together and I wish that Mr. Forbeck had remained true to the Western feel that he so carefully crafted in the early parts of the story. That said, the good parts of the story outweigh the bad and I see real promise in this series.