I somehow managed to finish reading the first one, but SoA... It's tough. It's almost as if there's some invisible force trying to repel me from reading the whole thing, and I really don't dig the Imoen X Phaere action.
I think the original poster might mean the 'Avatar Trilogy', NOT the Baldur's Gate novelizations? I'm pretty sure that's the story OF what specifically happened during the Time of Troubles. Shadowdale, Tantras, and Waterdeep were the titles of the novels (haven't read them myself though)
I read Avatar Trilogy twice, they are very good reads. You get to experience the prequel to Baldur's Gate. :-) the latter books, Prince of Liefs and Trial of the Cyric the Mad are even better IMHO. The books convey how gods work in Forgotten Realms, how they think, act, live and die. Essential reads for a bg fan, I think.
Despite the hot Imoen X Phaere action, I'm not going to touch those books with a 10' staff-mace.
does that actualy happen?
also are any of these books actualy good ive never realy read any forgotten realms stuff and actualy thought it was any good, biut then i am a fussy reader
The Time of Troubles novels are decent. They won't blow your mind but they're passable. It's mostly interesting reading if you're into Faerun's history and want to read it first hand. The two followup novels (Prince of Lies and Crucible: The Trial of Cyric the Mad) are...less so. In my opinion anyway. You get up close and personal with the deities but apparently they're all incredible assholes or idiots, which is unfortunate.
Still, an interesting read and not particularly bad, as long as you don't apply too much reason to the books.
The Baldur's Gate books are awful, do not touch them. If you see them in a store, steal them to burn them so you save other people the suffering.
I tried getting Shadowdale/Tantras/Waterdeep through the public library system but unfortunately the copy of the second book which we had locally was lost or something, and Interlibrary Loan just doesn't afford me enough time to get things read. I also got into Game of Thrones at the same time and that didn't help matters at all. Wish they were available somewhere as an e-book.
Kind of funny how everyone assumes they're talking about a BG novel series, if such a thing existed, instead of the Avatar Crisis books, which are the when the time of troubles happened.
The actual Crisis books are ok, they can drag a little at times, but overall they're a good read, especially if you want to know more about the Time of Troubles (several other books happened during the same period of time, but they tended to gloss it over and time skip through through it since it was hard to write adventures around it, kind of like what happened with the Spellplague BS in 4th).
The follow-up was decent as well. I thought Crucible was the best of the bunch, though Prince of Lies does give you an in-depth look at Cyric's post-God mindset before he completely loses his $%#^ due to his Artifact.
It's kind of ironic that he was trying to turn his life around and his first real act to save his friends out of a desire to protect them was what alienated him from them and caused them to turn against him and led to his jumping off the slippery slope for good, and he never forgave them for it which is why he hates Midnight and Kelemvor so much.
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Shadowdale, Tantras, and Waterdeep were the titles of the novels (haven't read them myself though)
also are any of these books actualy good ive never realy read any forgotten realms stuff and actualy thought it was any good, biut then i am a fussy reader
The two followup novels (Prince of Lies and Crucible: The Trial of Cyric the Mad) are...less so. In my opinion anyway. You get up close and personal with the deities but apparently they're all incredible assholes or idiots, which is unfortunate.
Still, an interesting read and not particularly bad, as long as you don't apply too much reason to the books.
The Baldur's Gate books are awful, do not touch them. If you see them in a store, steal them to burn them so you save other people the suffering.
The second novel was an utter disaster. I still can't believe how much I hated it.
The actual Crisis books are ok, they can drag a little at times, but overall they're a good read, especially if you want to know more about the Time of Troubles (several other books happened during the same period of time, but they tended to gloss it over and time skip through through it since it was hard to write adventures around it, kind of like what happened with the Spellplague BS in 4th).
The follow-up was decent as well. I thought Crucible was the best of the bunch, though Prince of Lies does give you an in-depth look at Cyric's post-God mindset before he completely loses his $%#^ due to his Artifact.
It's kind of ironic that he was trying to turn his life around and his first real act to save his friends out of a desire to protect them was what alienated him from them and caused them to turn against him and led to his jumping off the slippery slope for good, and he never forgave them for it which is why he hates Midnight and Kelemvor so much.