Posts

Showing posts from April, 2016

Review: Quag Keep

Image
Quag Keep by Andre Norton My rating: 1 of 5 stars So, back in my much younger days I was part of a subculture that got into a game called Dungeons & Dragons. You might have heard of it. Well, back then I was aware of some novels that were based on the game and published by TSR, the company that put out the game books and all the other stuff. I read some of them, and I enjoyed the hell out of them. So now I find that the very first novel written about the Greyhawk campaign world was actually penned by a Science Fiction Grand Master. Yeah, I was all in. I jumped in, with plenty of 70s and 80s music in the background (RIP Prince), and was ready to go.... And then...after. I feel like I've been walking through the Sea of Dust because seasonal allergies are a bitch and my mind kept wandering to anything but this book. Except...when I made myself read it. I was all 'huh?' much of the way. It started out kinda cool, with these mysterious di