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Ravenloft #14

Scholar of Decay

tanya huff robh ruppel

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In search of a hidden spellbook, magical scholar Aurek Nuiken and his younger brother, Dmitri, explore the undercity of Richemulot, where they must face the dangers of wererats and the attentions of a pair of beautiful women, as well as their own sibling rivalry

313 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1,1995
Series
Ravenloft

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Format
313 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published
December 1, 1995 by TSR, Lake Geneva WI
ISBN
9780786902064
ASIN
078690206X
Language
English

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Zackattacker
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April 17,2025
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EDİT: Aşağıdakileri yazdığımda %54'teydim. 3 yldız vermiştim. Sonra, kitaba bir şans daha vermeyi dendim. Ve...
Ravenloft'a yakışır bir kasvet, hüzün, entrika ve yitiklik var tapta. 4 ile 5 yıldız arasında kaldım ama beşi çaktım. Ne diyebilirim? Okuyunuz okutunuz.

ESKİ YAZI:
Kitabı bitiremedim. Bazı betimlemeleri, mevzuların geçtiği mekanı, karakterlerin düşeceği vaadedilen azabı beğendim. Ama kalanı... Karakterler o kadar aptalca davranıyorlar ki... Mükemmel ilerlemek için çırpınan öykünün çığlıkları içimi kanatıyor. Anlatı, bizzat yazar tarafından boğuluyor.
Ne başlarına gelenler yeterince trajik, ne verdikleri tepkiler trajediyi özümleyebilecek olgunluktaki insanlardan çıkma ne de amaçladıkları şeyler onlara “derinlik” katabilecek kadar özgün.
Üzgünüm ama beğenmedim.
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TrakMeAnimeObama
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April 17,2025
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As a French farmer, this book was doomed from the start; rats aren't appealing, rot and decay isn't appealing, the whole book essentially being a jab at the French isn't appealing, even the story is bland, the characters dumb and unlikeable, and the formatting amateurish

This book just has nothing going for it at all
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Tebaldi
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April 17,2025
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"Dangerous Liaisons" with wererats. I was not expecting to enjoy this one as much as I did. I'd put it in the top tier of the series. Great descriptions of the ruined city and decadent court intrigue.
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NotDevDev
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April 17,2025
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A thoroughly entertaining window on a very different, definitely interesting, part of the Domain of Dread - complete with vicious wererats, a mage's tragic search for a spell that could save his imprisoned wife, and his brother's seduction by one of two feuding wererat aristocrats. Great fun; highly recommended.
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Heatherfall
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April 17,2025
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If the cover of the book had said "A tale of fear" like the description here does, I probably would have been less surprised by what I found inside this book. I love fantasy, but I'm very very biased towards happy endings. My impression was that it's part of a collection of stories set in the same place vs. a series, although if it's part of a series that may explain why I couldn't get into. Overall, though, terribly depressing and not very well written. Felt like I had wasted my time in reading it.
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April 17,2025
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3.7 stars
It got better for me as it went along - the first third or so before all the characters are introduced has less comedy (yes, comedy...). Once the ruling family of Richemulot is there then it really gets going.
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ailuo
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April 17,2025
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There really wasn't much reason for me to like this book, other than the fact that it was fantasy. It's the twelfth in a series, and the ONLY one of the series I bothered to read. The story is set in a town of were-rats, which was a concept that seemed pretty silly to me at the time. The town's human population either doesn't notice that they're being ruled by lycanthropes, or they're too stupid to leave. And Dmitri, the brother of the main character, is so AMAZINGLY stupid that most of the story goes right over his head.

And yet I liked it. I liked it a LOT. The villains of the story have a surprising amount of depth for being were-rats. And I ended up having a lot of sympathy for everyone involved at the end. Not a happy book by any means, but still worth reading.
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