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Title: The Well Runs Dry
Review: The institution of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have produced in Well of Darkness the beginnings of a promising series. Though I didn't like the new take on Dwarves and the new take on Orcs, the Elven society is interesting enough to make up for them. As for the story, there isn't one until the final seventy-five pages. Up to that point, the book reads like a role-playing game guide... and, that's kind of what it is, having been simultaneously released with the Sovereign Stone gaming system.As readers of fantasy know, Margaret and Tracy aren't Tolkein split in half; but they're not schlock-king Piers Anthony either. Well of Darkness is long and somewhat boring, but ends in a way that seems to hint... hey, the next one's gonna be really good. And believe me, good or not, the next one will be very different, as the town of Vinnengael and its Dominion Lords are turned completely upside down. I'm tempted to bump this review up to three just out of curiousity.
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