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Introduce yourself to the Forgotten Realms(R) world with New York Times best-selling author, Lisa Smedman.

Larajin, the unacknowledged daughter of Thamalon Uskevren and a half-elf, finds herself embroiled in a bitter war between elves and humans. In an effort to bring peace to both Sembia and the Dalelands, Larajin must confront the twin brother she doesn't know and save a half-brother whose fate hangs in the balance.

Length: 324 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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Canadian LISA SMEDMAN is the author of many novels in the Forgotten Realms and Shadowrun lines, and works for a weekly newspaper in Vancouver. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN : B0036S0F5I
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast (25 March 2010)
Language : English
File size : 3252 KB
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Print length : 324 pages

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Neso

Very Disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on 9 May 2007

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"Heirs of Prophecy" is the fifth installment in the, so far, excellent "Sembia" series of stand-alone novels. I liked Smedman's earlier works (or rather later works since those books I read were written after this one), and I came into reading this novel with rather high expectations. It was not to be, though.

First something about the good things in this novel. Smedman's imagination is very colorful, and she gives some very good and vivid descriptions of Cormanthor forest and the wild elves living in it. Besides that, one of the characters, Leifander, is very interesting and well fleshed-out, which can't be said about this novel's other characters. The book also contains very few combat scenes, something I find very refreshing.

Now the bad stuff. As I mentioned, most of the characters are very shallow and uninteresting, and especially the book's main character Larajin. There is a concept about her being a priest of two goddesses at once, and while it may seem interesting, it turns out rather boring and repetitive. The author wanted to give a feeling of progress to her powers, I guess, but it turned out to be ridiculously fast. The plot is the standard "D&D adventure" plot, as I like to call it. Go there, learn that, go somewhere else, meet someone, do something, go somewhere again. There is a prophecy, a lost family member, a looming war, everything that has been written a million times over. To be honest, last forty or so pages show that there was maybe something to be done with the plot, but too little and far too late. The book also has a couple of annoying inconsistencies, such as elves despoiling their own burial grounds.

All in all, I expected far more from this novel. Read at your own discretion.

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Eric DeCarlo

Review: Sembia: Gateway to the Realms - Heirs of Prophecy (5 stars)

Reviewed in the United States on 19 August 2008

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This review is for the book `Heirs of Prophecy', which is Book V of the seven book `Sembia: Gateway to the Realms' series. This review is intended as a critique of the writing and flow of the book, not to reveal "spoolers". Please note: I am assuming that people have read The Halls of Stormweather , Book I of the series, prior to reading this review. If you haven't, you may wish to skip down to the last two paragraphs for my overall recommendation of this book, which will not contain any information about previous books in this series.

This book focuses on Larijin, a half-elven maid of the Uskevren household and illegitimate daughter of Thamalon Uskevren, written by Lisa Smedman. This story takes place over a year after the events of the short story `Skin Deep'. Larijin's ancestry is still a closely guarded secret, which is even kept from the other members of the Uskevren family. This keeps Larijin as an outsider which fuels her desire to learn more about elven heritage and why the group of her mothers people came to being her back. At the same time, the tension between the wood elves and the people of Sembia is growing, which lands Larijin right in the middle. Underneath the imposing conflict lies the need for understanding and acceptance.

Overall, the book is easily on par with may great books written by other great authors, in fact I am hard pressed to think if a book which has been better written. At no time while reading this book did I have a feeling of the story being rushed, nor that it going too slow. The story flows as needed for the events at the time. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed the short story `Skin Deep', as well as readers of the Forgotten Realms and other shared fantasy settings. I would also recommend this book to readers of general Fantasy, looking for a new view on fantasy story telling. I would recommend reading The Halls of Stormweather prior to reading this book. Although the `Sembia: Gateway to the Realms' series is not linear, they occur in conjunction with one another, I would recommend reading the prior books of the series first. Each book will make references to the events of the prior books, so the reader will have a more encompassing experience and a greater understanding of the time line throughout the series.

A Note to Readers new to Forgotten Realms: Like many shared settings, especially those stemming from gaming or other media types, the Forgotten Realms books are written with the assumption that the reader has some familiarity with the Forgotten Realms gaming setting. This frees up the author to focus on his or her story, instead of having to explain the world in which the story takes place; the calendar, geography, common races/species, magical properties, etc. This is very important when the book length is normally confined to 300 - 350 pages. As a reader reads more books in the Forgotten Realms setting, they will become more familiar with the world of Faerun and its inhabitants, making the experience more pleasant. The `Sembia: Gateway to the Realms' series is an excellent place for a reader to begin their journey into the Forgotten Realms, since the stories take place in a fairly localized area and contains mostly creatures common to fantasy literature in general.

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MKPJKP

OVERALL SCORE: (B-)

Reviewed in the United States on 28 March 2004

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This is a fairly good read, the plot is average, but the story telling, vivid descriptions, and good character development help make this story.
This is a story about good/noble/wonderful elves, and bad/greedy/bigoted/cheating/lying humans (sigh). The Heroine must stop a war, stop a evil wizard, save her brothers, and all with the power of LOVE!!! [yuck]. But the story is told with wonderful descriptive prose, reasonable complex characterizations, and seems to make up for the insipid plot. The flying cat is enough reason too read this book!
Although giving the elves facial tattoos seriously put me off, and nearly had me toss out the book. If you can get past this `sacralige', and you like this sort of story, you will probably like "Heirs of Prophecy".
OVERALL SCORE: (B-)
READABILITY: (A-), PLOT: (C-), CHARATERS: (A), DIALOGUE: (B-), SETTING: (A), ACTION/COMBAT: (B-), MONSTERS/ANTAGONISTS: (B+), ROMANCE: (n/a), SEX: (n/a), AGE LEVEL: (G/PG)

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Donald M Bennett

The children do amazing things with no training or knowledge

Reviewed in the United States on 17 February 2016

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This book has a allot of miracles. It is a fair tale written for young girls. The children do amazing things with no training or knowledge.This book could be turned into a girly Disney movie. It is that far fetched.

Nexnecis

happy to have found it

Reviewed in the United States on 30 June 2017

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Couldn't find this in any book shop, even though other books in the set were there, happy to have found it :-).

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