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Mer-monsters versus men in world of Dungeons & Dragons!I’m enjoying a bit of a Dungeons & Dragons renaissance of late, scoffing up the fantasy game’s old books and rulebooks wherever I can find them -- either digitally or at second-hand bookstores. I recently found all three of Mel Odom’s The Threat From The Sea trilogy at a 2nd & Charles bookstore (love that place!) and dug into book one of the series, The Rising Tide, which offers a credible beginning to the war between the surface civilizations of the Forgotten Realms and the dark denizens of the underwater deep.Odom does a great job selling the maritime setting, and some of the strongest scenes of the book take place aboard ship (the encounter with a half-sunken merchantman is particularly tense and unnerving) or under the waves. His heroes are well-drawn and likable -- though for having been around the waterfront a bit, their near total naïveté is a bit of a stretch – and there’s a pretty good battle royale in the city of Waterdeep. Odom does a good job sticking to the D&D mythos, crafting compelling action sequences and spell-casts, though admittedly some of this stuff – such as cameos of the Forgotten Realms’ glitterati (which was probably pretty cool when more kids were actually playing more D&D than video games) – go right past my old head.The negative? Though the monsters and the setting have changed, there is a formula being followed here. Reluctant hero with a dark secret? Check! Evil antagonist, imprisoned for centuries, now released and scheming to conquer the world? Check! Darth Vader-esque ‘daddy’ issues? Check! It’s essentially the same set-up you get in many a fantasy book – though well enough crafted that you don’t mind so much. What I think is the biggest miss is that the original D&D game was all about teamwork – a diverse group of adventures coming together to embark on a common quest. The first Dragonlance book, which kicked off the D&D novel craze, captured that dynamic and wonderfully exploited the ensemble cast. In Rising Tide, our protagonist, Jherek, is very much a lone wolf and that isolation keeps this one from truly channeling the main strength of the game that inspired the story.However, Odom does put all pieces into play by the end of the novel, and here’s hoping that -- now that groundwork has been laid -- the plot will offer a few new twists and turns that go beyond the typical fantasy tropes. I’m intrigued enough to give the second book in trilogy, Under Fallen Stars, a shot.
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