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Message: <blockquote data-quote="orbitalfreak" data-source="post: 2717045" data-attributes="member: 1669">I agree with you (having finished the book a few days ago), this book's quality was a few notches below his usual stuff.  It seemed like he was writing to meet a deadline and didn't get to polish this one up.  The plot didn't flow well.  I can barely remember what the storyline was less than a week after finishing it.  The characters weren't really fleshed-out; I never got around to actually caring about any of them.  Even Entreri and Jarlaxyl fell flat, to me, and I think that Jarlaxyl has the potential to be one of the most intriguing characters in the Realms.I do think that it's his writing style that has changed, and for the worse.  I make it a point to re-re-re-read the Homeland trilogy every couple of years or so, because I think that it's a well-written book that has a good story to go with it (good writing is useless without entertainment, and entertainment is lessened by bad writing; both must exist to provide a book worth reading) It's a gradual decline over the last several novels, with this one to the point of being difficult to read.  I agree with a friend of mine that the decline started after he  /[spoiler]resurrected Wulfgar[/spoiler]\, trying to devise a plot to get around that death for whatever reason, and subsequently basically writing that character out of any future books.  It hurt the series, continuity-wise, and character-development wise.</blockquote>

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