Throne of Eldraine: The Wildered Quest

Storytelling when it comes to Magic the Gathering is Hard to say the least. Getting any and all characters portrayed within the story is difficult enough without fans nitpicking (for lack of a better word) minute details of the authors direction for the story. But this author seems to do a good job with my favorite character in all MTG history, Garruk. Too long has his troubled story been put to the wayside of MTG lore. Overall, it’s refreshing to see that she took the character of Garruk with seriousness to get him right as well as keeping the story entertaining with all the constraints WoTC and Hasbro have on the card game.

This book is just bad. The dialogue is awkward and bloated with exposition. The prose is mostly confusing. Too often it’s nigh-impossible to tell who is saying what—either for lack of dialogue tags or because of baffling pronouns. The denouement is rushed and stuffed with deus ex machina. Worse, after the book ends is the About the Author, where we learn that the penholder has been writing for three decades, with twenty-seven published books to her name, and nary without a soul to tell her that maybe she should be doing something else.

Absolutely amazing. Although it would have been nice to elaborate more on the lore of the other realms instead of focusing on Ardenvale the most. As a mono black fan, I loved the inclusion of the cauldron of eternity.