The Sword Never Sleeps

by Ed Greenwood

Book Overview

A classic, Lieber-esque sword and sorcery adventure A cry for heroes went out from the kingdom of Cormyr when treachery threatened to bring her low, and the Knights of Myth Drannor answered that call. Earning praise from the Crown itself for their efforts, the Knights earned the name of adventurers. But to save Cormyr, they must become more than mere adventurers. The Knights must become heroes. "The Sword Never Sleeps" is the epic conclusion to the...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786950153
• ISBN13: 9780786950157
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.1" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Docks review

A great book. I see the character development of the Knights of Myth Drannor. They are steadily changing into the characters I saw in the Avatar series and other anthologies. It will be interesting to see how the Chosen of Mystra fit into the upcoming books.

Solid conclusion - best novel of the trilogy

The Sword Never Sleeps by Ed Greenwood is the third book in the Knights of Myth Drannor trilogy. The first book in the series is Swords of Eveningstar (Forgotten Realms: The Knights of Myth Drannor, Book 1) and the second novel being titled Swords of Dragonfire (Forgotten Realms: The Knights of Myth Drannor, Book 2). This trilogy seems to be intended to be a prequel for the Knights of Myth Drannor, to give them more `face' time and to better explain how they came together and what some of their early motivations are. One thing about any type of prequel is readers basically already know how things will end. Fans of the Forgotten Realms will no doubt recognize many of the characters if this novel, and as such, know who will be there in the final scenes. At any rate, here are my thoughts on the novel. The plot of this book is actually several plots rolled into one. The main story arc, as one would expect, involved the Knights of Myth Drannor and how they continually find trouble and just what they do with that trouble. The second story line is an attempt to unseat the Royal Wizard Vangerdahast by creating doubt and subterfuge. Another sub plot is the relationship between Vangerdahast and the Princess Alusair. There are a couple other minor sub plots, but if I start talking about those I would no doubt spoil something, so in interested of space and time I will leave it at that. I will say that out of the three books in the Knights of Myth Drannor trilogy, this is the one I liked most. The plot, for the most part, made sense. There are a couple scenes that didn't seem to mesh with the overall story, but they were much less infrequent than in the past couple novels. The pacing of events is a slow methodical build, then when things start falling into place it quickly becomes a whirlwind of activity. While I was not completely blown away by the story, I need to say I did enjoy it and it kept me entertained. The characters in this book are largely the characters from the first two books, and ones readers would expect to find in this book. Such as; Vangerdahast, Florin, Islif, Jhessail, Doust, and Semoor to name a few. One of the things I said in my review of the second book was that there wasn't much character development. Aside from the development of Vanderdahast and Alusair, I still feel that to be the case. There is a lot written about the Knights, but for the most part they end the novel the same way they started it. There is not much in terms of growth in terms of them learning things about themselves, new skills etc. I still think that is one of the pitfalls of writing a story, or trilogy, for that matter in a prequel fashion about characters that have long been written about. The character of Vanderdahast was fantastic in this novel though. I felt like this is one of the few novels that really gives the reader some insight into who he is and what he stands for. It was nice to see him get quite a bit of face time in the novel. I wish the villains