The Shadow of Sorcery

by Andrew J. Offutt

Book Overview

Hoping to find the fabled Rings of Senek, adventurer Shadowspawn travels to the outskirts of a city ruled by sorcerers where he must first navigate the labyrinthine maze beneath the city. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441760260
• ISBN13: 9780441760268
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Shadowspawn in a dungeon crawl far from Sanctuary

If you followed the Thieves' World series you've read some stories of Hanse Shadowspawn, a cocky young thief with strange friends. This novel is devoted to Hanse, following his adventures in a little town that once housed a nasty wizard named Corstic. Shadowspawn got rid of Corstic (before the story opens) and most of the town is friendly. Unfortunately some are after Corstic's treasures, and Hanse looks like a handy guy to fetch them out of Corstic's maze, especially if he can be persuaded by the kidnapping of his girl Mignureal... I like Hanse, I like humor, and I like strange magical mazes as much as anyone. However this reads more like another episode of a weekly serial rather than a full-fledge novel with deeper implications. I rate it a 4 as worth the trouble to read but not something to take instead of a real gem.

Great and inventive way of using magic

This book as a great book when it concerns a creative and new way of using magic. Instead of the not too much used or "basic" wizards, a game master can do a lot of new ideas from this book. Also the story line is not hard to get into. Lots of times you come to points that you don't want to go to sleep but want to read on to see what will happen next. I don't want to spoil a lot of the book, but to my opinion the maze chapters where the best.