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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 3261458" data-attributes="member: 3087">I picked up a few Eberron books. I didn’t like any of them actually.Personally if you’re looking for good ideas and stories you should pick up strong fantasy-fiction (GRRM, Mieville) or read some of the better story hours (Sep, Destan, Piratecat)KB’s books (I’ve read the first two) aren’t very strong as fiction. The characters are a bit simplistic and the interest is derived more from the situations and events that they face. These are interesting but not really thematically linked in a useful manner.They are decent for introducing people to Eberron, but they also violate a lot of Eberron tenets a bit unnecessarily. Warforged are immune to Mind Flayer mind-blasts, a House Canith character gets to deactivate construct with her dragonmark in the introduction and the power never turns up again, despite it’s obvious power and utility in later scenes.You very much get the sense that the world shifts and changes to match the needs of the plot.The Claws of the Tiger had better characterization. I had hopes because I think Wyatt has very strong creative chops.But it really felt like a short story that went on for too long. The “big surprise” was agonizingly transparent, which was OK, but he just went on and on repeating the same few scenes (‘elves see something with super human vision” “main character agonizes about wife”).After a while you are going “elves don’t –have- super human vision” and “the main character couldn’t possibly be this stupid; and if he is Elvin wizard buddy can’t be…”Then they’re the big reveal and the payoff isn’t worth it.And the wife’s characterization was terrible. She’s the main plot point, really, she gets a massive amount of “screen time” but she comes off more as some kind of living saint, devoid of any personality beyond “perfect wife & priestess”.It would have been a decent-to-very-good short story.But, like with the Baker books, you felt that they were just working to try to make the characters “get from point D to point F”.That’s not to say that the books were terrible. It’s just that people without significant writing experience need a lot of time, lots of drafts and a very strong editor before they can turn out first rate work.</blockquote>

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