La Costa de la Espada sufre una repentina escasez de hierro, precisamente cuando crece la tensión entre Ann y los Grandes Duques de la Puerta de Baldur y la guerra parece inevitable. ¿Qué tiene todo esto que ver con el intento de asesinato de un mercenario a sueldo por parte de unos sicarios desconocidos?

DNF: read 10%, skimmed 20%. Extremely shallow fantasy archetypes of character and events, and the plot immediately side quests rather than follows what it set up. ( )

Not nearly as good as the video game of the same name! How could it be, really? A novelization of the great Baldur's Gate game, this wasn't bad. ( )

This was... an experience. In order to rate this, I had to actually rate various parts and take the average. The writing was a 3/10, the story was a 7/10, and the characters were a 6/10, bringing it to about 2.5/5. The writing alone was a slog to get through, and the characters were genuinely decent for the most part, but there were spots where they came off as amateur, cardboard cutouts bent on the destruction of any literary wonder. I highly recommend it if you want something so bad it's laughable. ( )

The Baldur's Gate series are some of my all-time favorite video games, so I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that there was a trilogy of books based on them.

However, this book didn't live up to my expectations. The author rushes through the main plotline, leaving out loads of characters and events and all the side quests/plots. Of course it would be almost impossible to form some sort of cohesive narrative (as a novel at least, it works well as a game) from all of the game content, due too the sheer amount, but there were a few characters and events I sorely missed, which would probably have added a lot to this book (How could the author leave out Minsc and Boo?). Condensing 100-200 hours of playing time into 240 pages is a almost impossible task and it's not very well executed here. The book is not very well written and the characters are pretty one-dimensional. For anyone who hasn't played Baldur's Gate this is probably pretty much incomprehensible and for anyone who has, it's gonna be a disappointment. ( )