Might and Magic The Dreamwright by Geary Gravel Review

 

9/27/2022

Book: Might and Magic the Dreamwright.
Author: Geary Gravel
Pages: 248
Hard Core Scale: 2.5/4
Normal Scale: 7/10
Publish Date: 1995
About: The girl Diligence is sent with an Entourage to visit her mother and the mighty Dreamwright who rules the lands for advice on how to deal with the problems affecting the world. She is joined by the boy Hitch and a man who fell to earth in a giant egg. Mysteries abound and such a journey is perilous.

Review: What the hell did I just read? Might and Magic is my favorite video game series. The author was contracted to write a book trilogy for the 6th installment. This was written after Xeen. Might and magic always has a WTfuckery and that SF edge reveal. This had both. The WTF was way beyond the norm. One can applaud the original fantasy world design. So many terms were dropping and never explained or shown that it borderlines on pointless fantasy name drops. On the other hand it spurs the imagination. THE SF reveal In the end was less a surprise, but became the point of the journey. Lots of  plot of coincidence and plot stretching to get there. Most of the book the journey of random encounters. That is the key to the book, randomness in nearly everything. It is not a standard group of might and magic adventures but young youth on that journey. Yes it could be a might magic world. It fits the universe. Amund and Eofol are mentioned place. Characters are likeable, plenty of imagination to go around. Plot point ajar in that random sense of pointlessness. The author has a bad issue of poorly describing his monsters. An interesting read, but I am happy we got Erathia INSTEAD. We have one more book, then the unfulfilled contract was dropped and a random book by another author too the burden of non Erathia. Not sure, just a weird mixture of imaginative explosion and odd hyper plot, an artifact of an alternative timeline that never came to be. Erathia is my only love so I am fine with this decision. 

Book Cover by Bill Fawcett, Del Rey Books, Ubisoft 1995.
 

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