One of the first novels about Waterdeep, the starting location of many adventures in the Forgotten Realms D&D world. The authors did a good job bringing the city to life and making this a decent novel. ( )

This review is written with a GPL 3.0 license and the rights contained therein shall supersede all TOS by any and all websites in regards to copying and sharing without proper authorization and permissions. Crossposted at Bookstooge.booklikes.blogspot. wordpress.leafmarks.com & Bookstooge's Reviews on the Road Facebook Group by Bookstooge's Exalted Permission. Title: The City of Splendors Series: The Cities Author: Elaine Cunningham & Ed Greenwood Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars Genre: SFF Pages: 544 Format: Kindle digital edition Synopsis: Waterdeep, an important city, is struggling under the weight of shiftless younger nobles, a rising working class, an ailing leader, attacks by a priest and his ilk and the machinations of a crimelord/magician. My Thoughts: I don't like Ed Greenwood's books. The couple of Elminster books I read were pretty low on the "skillz" level even for Forgotten Realms. So I went into this with wicked low expectations. On the other hand, I really enjoyed Cunningham's Dark Journey. So I didn't know WHAT I was going to encounter. This was also a good bit longer than the usual FR book, so that was nice. Surprisingly, this was good. There were a variety of plot lines, that while intertwining, weren't repetitive. The whole Religion of Amalgamation was pretty interesting and I wished that it had played a bigger part than it did. It had potential. Definitely a good wrap up to the Cities Tetralogy. " ( )

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