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The Priests series makes a great entry point for readers new to the Forgotten Realms setting.
This book in the Priests series deals with a valiant shalarin priestess who is trying to save her home and avenge her mother’s death. This series is designed to bring new readers into the world of the Forgotten Realms. The books can be read in any order.
- Sales Rank: #310264 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-11-20
- Released on: 2012-11-20
- Format: Kindle eBook
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
A book with little identity
By Andy Gray
When I first say this book and who it was written by, Richard Byers - author of the Year of the Rogue Dragon series- I was looking forward to it as I like his writing style. The Preiest books, 4 in all, are a series of stand alone novels about various deities int he Forgotten Realms. With the title of this book Queen of the Depths I knew right away it would be about Umberlee and would focus a lot on the underwater life of the realms.
I will talk about the story, plot, first.
After reading the prologue I was worried about this book. Right away we are reading about mad dragons underwater attacking a underwater city. I inwardly groaned, as this is the stuff Mr. Byers covers in the Rogue Dragoe series. These are supposed to be stand alone novels - maybe a small time in to another Realms event would have been better - but not the Realms Shaking Event currently taking place. So, I quietly hoped this was an abonimation and the Dragones would be gone, and maybe the plot would focus on the destruction caused and such. No such luck, it centers around the Cult of the Dragon having a secret base and finding it. As with all my reviews I won't give spoilers here, but I just felt people need to know this is almost a continuation of the Rogue Dragon series, just with different characters.
The characters were ok at best. Initially, they seemed to be rather deep characters, yet the further I read into the book they never really seemed to develop... they just were. From the time I started the book until I ended it I felt, character wise, that I read a short story because the characters didn't grow or anything. They were simple 2-D cut-outs of characters you could find in a source book. I didn't like them at all. My last complaint about the characters is ***be warned some may consider this a small spoiler***
One of the two main characters, Tu'ala'keth is the preistess of Umberlee and all through the book she is cold, unforgiving and accepting of death. The author tries to make her out as a hardass that just does Umberlee's work. Sure, fine, works for me. Yet the last scene of the book what does the author have her do? She HUGS the human that she has basically dragged through all this. She HUGS him... why? Why was this scene there, based on her character this should never have happened. There was a scene ealier in the book where she says she doesn't like to be touched by humans... so she ends up hugging one. Makes no sense to me.
All the above is not to say this book doesn't have some value. It's not a bad book, it just has so many flaws that to someone who reads a lot of Fotrgotten Realms books I expected something totlally different than what I got.
I try to end my reviews by either recommending the book or not recommending it. For this one I would not actively recommend it to most people, as I think there are better books to read out there. Yet, I will say this, if you are a fan of the Year of the Rogue Dragon series - you should probably read this book. If you are a fan of dragon books you should like this just fine. Don't expect great characters or a great plot, but it's an ok read at best.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Just another FR novel
By Neso
As you can see from the title of this review, this book has nothing unique or memorable in it. It's not a bad novel, far from it, but it is simply ordinary, too ordinary maybe.
As ever, Byers offers us a steady and straightforward plot without many surprises and twists in it. A priestess of Umberlee from Myth Nantar wants to bring worshippers back to her deity's empty temples, and decides she should try and stop a rage of dragons ravaging Seros, or Sea of Fallen Stars, as it is better known. Fate (or Umberlee's will) brings her across a spy from Turmish, and together they seek the Cult of the Dragon hideout amidst Seros' numerous islands. The main character (the priestess, whatever her name is) is a fiery zealot at times and at other times a cold and calculating person. It kind of contradicts each other. Anton, the above mentioned Turmian spy, is a type of character that pops up in each of Byers' books - a cunning survivor. The rest of the characters are pretty bleak. It's worth the mention that some of them appear in Mel Odom's trilogy "Threat from the Sea", taking part in the same part of Faerun.
Although almost all elements in this book are average, I do have some minor complaints. Byers' doesn't bother much with descriptions of places and people characters visit, and the book is short in realmslore. Odom did that much better in his books. Of course, he had 900+ pages to fit it in, as opposed to 309 in this book. Besides that, the characters have a prophetic touch to them, or more specifically even their wildest assumptions always turn out to be true. It takes a bit off realism and overall quality of this book.
All in all, I would describe this one as a hybrid between "Threat from the Sea" and "Year of Rogue Dragons" trilogies. If you consider underwater combat and lots of dragons interesting, you should enjoy this book. I didn't. A mediocre FR novel.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Queen of the Depths
By Travis Eisenbrandt
Queen of the Depths by Richard Lee Byers
Queen of the Depths is the fourth book in The Priests series of stand-alone novels set in the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons and Dragons. The other three books in this series are; Lady of Poison by Bruce R. Cordell, Mistress of Night by Dave Gross and Don Bassingthwaite, and Maiden of Pain by Kameron M. Franklin. Richard Lee Byers has an extensive bibliography of novels, collections, and short stories in varying genres and shared worlds. His other works in the Forgotten Realms include; The Shattered Mask part of the Sembia: Gateway to the Realms series, Dissolution in the R. A. Salvatore’s War of the Spider Queen series, a stand-alone novel in The Rogues series titled The Black Bouquet, The Year of the Rogue Dragons trilogy (The Rage, The Rite, and The Ruin), The Haunted Lands trilogy (Unclean, Undead, and Unholy), The Brotherhood of the Griffin series (The Captive Flame, Whisper of Venom, The Spectral Blaze, The Masked Witches, and Prophet of the Dead), and a part of The Sundering series titled The Reaver. Queen of the Depths was released September 2005 and is published by Wizards of the Coast.
Anton Marivaldi figures that he is doomed to die. With nothing around but sea, he has little less to do but float and wait for death to take him. But a curious shalarin, a humanoid aquatic creature, takes pity on his poor soul, or so he thinks. The shalarin, Tu'ala'keth, takes him underwater to the city of Myth Nantar and tells Anton that Umberlee, the goddess of the sea, chose him help Tu'ala'keth bring followers back to Umberlee's altars. In order to do this, Tu'ala'keth tells Anton that the dragons of the sea are raging and her idea to regain Umberlee's faithful is to find a way to put an end to it. Luckily for her, Anton was already tasked in uncovering a cult trying to help the dragons turn into dracoliches before they would rage out of control. In order to find out where this cult is located, Anton and Tu'ala'keth travel around the Sea of Fallen Stars joining pirates and discovering information in the shady city of Immurk's Hold.
Criticisms:
1) Characters. The characters, for the most part, were a real letdown. They weren't bad but were more underwhelming and felt stale. Anton wasn't a horrible main character but he didn't really stand out. He really comes off as a generic lead. By the end of the book, it feels like there wasn't any development with him. The more interesting and unique character was Tu'ala'keth, but only for her single-minded drive and devotion to her goddess. However, she also suffered from lack of character progression. She stayed the cold, fanatical priestess she started as, until the end of the novel when she does something so out of character that it stuns you into a stupor. As for the other characters, they are completely forgettable.
2) Plot. The biggest issue with Queen of the Depths is its pacing. The story itself isn't all that bad, just generic. The pacing is what really kills the enjoyment. Queen of the Depths feels like it takes forever to get going and when it does the story jumps from something interesting to something more run of the mill and generic. Honestly, it feels like it doesn't take the necessary time to develop a lot of the scenarios and plot points, while rushing to find an ending. Aside from when Anton and Tu'ala'keth were masquerading as pirates, the rest of the story feels unfocused and rushed through. Needless to say the pirate plot was the best part of the story.
Praises:
1) Action. The fight scenes and action sequences were probably Queen of the Depths strongest parts. The sword fights and larger scale fight scenes were fun to read, easy to follow, and exciting. It kept you interested and engaged in what was going on. Even the magical and divine spells being slung back and forth weren't bogged down in typical fantasy prose. Between the sword fighting and magical fights, there wasn't anything to complain about.
2) Romance. Thankfully there is no tacked on romance in Queen of the Depths. Anton and Tu'ala'keth remain 'friends' throughout the novel and stay that way. Too often are fantasy novels forced into having a love interest for the main character, or being remotely interested in another character. Queen of the Depths doesn't go with the usual tropes and makes Anton and Tu'ala'keth's relationship strictly platonic. Aside from the two using others in a romantic way to gain what they needed, of course.
Side Notes:
1) Year of the Rogue Dragons. Queen of the Depths ties into Richard Lee Byers trilogy Year of the Rogue Dragons with the rage of dragons going on throughout the novel.
2) Creatures. There were a lot of interesting species that you meet in the novel from the depths of the ocean, kind of makes you want to learn more about them.
3) Cover Art. The cover art is pretty, yet feels like it could have been more. Maybe remove the column borders and actually let the artwork show. The art itself is nice to look at and really gives it a watery feel.
Overall: 2/5
Final Thoughts:
While Queen of the Depths has some interesting aspects to it, it's sadly just another generic fantasy novel. The plot has some really bad pacing, skipping through the interesting parts while not really taking the time to develop the other main parts of the story. The characters were your run-of-the-mill fantasy heroes and heroines, and whenever they would start gaining some development, it just would drop off into nothingness. Tu'ala'keth was the most entertaining character, but never really takes off. That said, the action was top-notch, something I come to expect from Richard Lee Byers. The fight scenes were very fun to read and kept you engaged enough to keep reading. The lack of a romance was more of a surprise. Usually fantasy novels have some sort of forced in romance, but thankfully the two main characters remain platonic throughout the novel. Queen of the Depths would be interesting to read if you like dragons, but otherwise it's safe to stay out of these waters.
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