Weirdly slow for a book about slaying monsters for gold.

The characters are alive and just deep enough that you'll feel for them and worry about their safety or sanity. The protagonist is very likeable and the plot twists keep you on your toes throughout the story. I couldn't find anything I didn't really like about it. The slow parts are not very long and in the usual Knaak style, things just keep moving along. Excellent background story to the world of Sanctuary.

Entertaining. Not spectacular, but certainly one of those guilty pleasure reads motivated primarily by interest in the series. Difficult to become very emotionally invested in the characters, but quasi-interesting lore/back story.

An enjoyable read from a world that I am completely unfamiliar with. The whole story started of slow but, did become better as it moved along. I am familiar with the author from the Dragon Lance series.

I usually avoid fiction derived from videogames or movies, but I was playing Diablo III, and I got tempted. What made me decide to read the book was noticing that this trilogy was written by Knaak, that is an author I read and appreciated in the past. He had written a video-game inspired trilogy (i.e. WoW War of the Ancients trilogy) that was actually worth reading and entertaining so I decided to give it a try. This may not be the best of his books (do not get me started on the main female characters of this book, and how disturbingly uninteresting she is), but it is entertaining and there are some interesting Miltonian themes that redeem the book.
Plot: Uldyssian, a simple farmer from the village of Seram, is mistakenly blamed for the grisly murders of two traveling missionaries. He is forced to flee his homeland with his brother and two of his dearest friends. Soon both Uldyssian and his brother starts exhibiting strange new powers and finding themselves in the middle of the eternal conflict between the angelic forces of the High Heavens and the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells.

My point:0.5
I think even if you wanted you couldn't write a book this bad

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O meu namorado é completamente viciado no jogo do Diablo, então eu ofereci-lhe o livro, mas… quem acabou por lê-lo fui eu (para variar). Depois de o jogo não dar no meu computador, decidi experimentar o livro…
O primeiro volume da trilogia The Sin War, é uma boa adição ao conhecimento de todo o universo do Diablo (jogo) incluído principalmente Tyrael e Inarius.
Há três mil anos atrás, Uldyssian, filho de Diomedes, era apenas um agricultou na vila de Seram. Possuía uma vida tranquila, o que lhe de dava uma grande felicidade, pelo menos até ao dia que á sua volta começam a surgir uns ambientes um quanto ou tanto escuros. Sendo responsabilizado por crimes que não cometeu, dois assassinatos de missionários intenerántes, Uldyssian é forçado então a por-se em fuga da sua terra natal e forçadamente mete-se numa missão perigosa para limpar o seu nome.
Não esperava era que se começasse a acontecer-lhe coisas estranhas que nunca lhe passou pela cabeça, poderes, ele tinha poderes que nenhum outro mortal tinha. Assim Uldyssian tem que lidar com estes novos poderes para que estes não devorei a pouca humanidade que lhe resta.
Acho que Knaak fez um bom trabalho com os ambientes e todos os cenários “criados” que fizeram com que me sentisse lá, acho que apesar de tudo isso é importante, para mim pelo menos e ver tudo a acontecer a minha frente é fantástico. As personagens são, claro, profundas e muito “vivas” que me fez querer estar com elas e me fez temer por elas.
A história é deveras interessante e é tudo tão intenso, vão gostar de Uldyssian e dos restantes personagens, e todo o mundo sobrenatural que envolve o livro.
Mas se alguém o for ler, é necessário ter uma coisa a mão… o próximo volume.
Acho que lhe vou oferecer os restantes *cof*cof*

This book is very good.

I was captivated by the story of diablo world since I started playing Hots. And this book did a great job to keep me continuing with this journey. Just one thing keeps bugging me is how a nephalem can defeat the demon. Whatever, now I am starting the second book.

I liked aspects of this book but I truly hated the writing style of this book. It was hard to get over, and through.

The book captures the tone of Diablo very well and it describes some pretty interesting and relevant lore, all around a good read.

I listened to the audiobook version from Audible and the narration was okay... usually. Some weird pronunciation at times and "shouting" is, I think, badly done by the narrator.

I thought the ending was lame though, which is why I went with 4/5.

Die Story, die dieses Buch erzählen möchte ich gar nicht schlecht, nur der Autor konnte sie nicht schreiben. Ich habe mich bis zur Hälfte durchgequält, es aber dann abgebrochen.

Den Stern bekommt es nur für die Story die schön hätte sein können.