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The Bloody Eye

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By: T. H. Lain
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Far beneath the earth, a sinister ritual takes place. A corrupt cleric seeks the Eye of Gruumsh, a relic sacred to the hideous god of the orcs. Against him stand a scullery maid, a paladin, a priest of the god Pelor, and a half-orc barbarian.Will they be enough?

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it's a good story, but the middle drags a little and took me a long time to complete.
The final part rushes to recover it self and gets a little bit better. Although that causes somethings in the end to be solved too easily and not well explained, it's still a good story.

the middle drags a little

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The Bloody Eye is a book with quite a bit happening but not very much of it feels cohesive or particularly interesting.

We see a return of Jozan, Krusk and Alhandra but because these are meant to be self-contained novels the two characters who have history (Krusk and Alhandra) don't really have much of a coming together or even much of a reunion at all. That feels strange, considering their adventure together in City of Fire. I think this was a missed opportunity to weave some deeper narrative threads. The introduction of the relationship between Jozan and his fallen mentor, Calmet, felt very underdeveloped and the climax of their interaction was alright.

Yddith felt so unnecessary to me. Her character felt bizarre to have become important and then become weirdly powerful, but also not? It was very strange and her attachment to Krusk also felt unnecessary. I understand the appeal of a human/half-orc love thing but there was no need for it. And it just made it feel forced, awkward and "meh". I didn't dislike the characters, I thought the user of orcs was okay but there needed to be more of them. More details and probably have an orc leading this cult of Gruumsh - who is an orc god. When you have humans co-opt it, just feels weird.

I would recommend this book to people who enjoy a simple, if unsatisfying, adventure romp.

A distinct lack of focus marred a possibility for fun, classic D&D adventure.

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