Moon Shadow

Are you a fan of Baldur's Gate 3? Does Treasure Planet have a special place in your heart? Well, you found the best combination of the two! I love this novel. Thank you Django Wexle for giving the Spelljammer setting some much needed good official content. The characters by themselves were good, but together all of them had great synergy. The scenes were dynamic, but also detailed enough for me to dive deep in the amazing world of Shatterspace. There were some small and some big plot twists. And even though the book is targeted mainly toward teenagers, I as an adult also enjoyed it a lot. Five stars are not enough to reflect my appreciation for this novel. It deserves every single star, that shines around a spelljammer! And yes, please, please, please give us a second part (or maybe even a whole series)!

I am a big fan of J. Johnson's novels, however The Road to Neverwinter, while being okay, felt too much like a 5e adventure checklist (not sure if it is because of the author or because of hasbro). I was afraid that this one will be the same. Fortunately, I was wrong! Maybe some minor spoilers here: The first one or two chapters again felt like an advertisement for the main things that you can find in 5e. However after that the story picks up and the author presents a great adventure. The story is clearly for the younger audience, there are no harsh words, there is not so much graphic violence. However I also enjoyed it, being an older fan of the D&D game and novels. There were some really interesting items, places and ideas that can easily be transferred to the game table. And I don't care if it is cringe or not, but I am playing Baudric in our next game, I have not ever seen a better character idea. Overall, I hope that everyone will like the novel as much as I liked it and WotC will see that we still read novels, so they should not be afraid to give us more of these. WotC, please, let the writers do their job, don't make them write adverts for your products.