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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 4612796" data-attributes="member: 8461">I personally thought that the Prism Pentad books were great, because they really get into the heart of what the setting is about. They seriously delve into both what it's like to live on Athas, and deal with the history of the setting, as well as introducing a new time of change, upheaval, and possibility. They worked very well, and the characters were interesting and fairly well fleshed-out. I strongly recommend them as the best Dark Sun books out there.The Tribe of One stuff wasn't bad, but I agree that the character was too overpowered, and occupied a fairly ridiculous (at best) moral high-ground that made him extremely difficult to like. In such a gritty setting, characters work best when they occupy a moral grey zone, not when they act like a paladin who's above it all.Finally, I didn't like Lynn Abbey's works at all, simply because she kept deviating from the setting canon. I can't respect a book that does that, because if you can't keep straight basic facts about the setting, why are you writing a book in that setting in the first place? She's a great writer, and her books are good...they're just not Dark Sun, but rather, are a facsimile of the setting, which isn't what I wanted to read.</blockquote>