Death Masks
Forgotten Realms: Elminster, Book 7
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Death Masks
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Narrated by:
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John Pruden
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By:
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Ed Greenwood
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Ed Greenwood, who is synonymous with the Forgotten Realms, leads listeners through a story that combines the rollicking fantasy adventure for which he is famous with a murder mystery-thriller.
That's what, four lords dead?
Revealed in death to have been Masked Lords, three more citizens had been murdered over the preceding day and night: the Sembian wine seller and collector Oszbur Malankar; the half-elf sorceress and artisan Dathanscza Meiril; and the moneylender, landlord, and investor Ammasker Gwelt.
All of Waterdeep now knew someone was killing the Lords of Waterdeep one by one. Yet that was about where truth ended and speculation - however plausible - began. The broadsheets were full of wild conjecture. Who was behind this? The ousted Lord Neverember? The Zhentarim, the Cult of the Dragon, or some other Outland Power? The Xanathar? Some cabal of guilds or nobles planning a coup?
The rumors would rage on whether the Open Lord Laeral Silverhand did something or not. That was the trouble with rumors: Once loosed, they roamed free like snarling, untamed beasts, with no simple way of stopping them. And all rumors aside, Waterdeep has become...
A city of murderers!
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There are so many characters in this and their motivations are barely touched upon, so I don't care about any of them. I'm extremely sex positive, but there is so much pointless flirting, sex and horniness (and not in an entertaining way).
Multiple characters running their own complicated schemes, would result in a very complicated situation. In that regard, this book is accurate. This scenario could work as a game, either a D&D group game or a solo computer game. However, it did not work for me as a novel.
The fact that it all makes sense is to be commended. It has a few tense and exciting moments, especially later on. But it was kind of like homework for me. I'd like to rate the story 2.5/5 but that doesn't appear to be possible.
Distractingly Horny and Convoluted but ultimately logical
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