Marked for Death

Eberron: The Lost Mark, Book 1

By: Matt Forbeck

Narrated by: Claire Christie

Marked for Death begins a new epic trilogy set in the world of Eberron, Wizards of the Coast’s newest D&D campaign setting. The Eberron world will continue to grow through new roleplaying game products, novels, miniatures, and electronic games.

Author Bio: Matt Forbeck has written and designed games for more than 14 years, for which he has garnered several awards. His most recent title for Wizards of the Coast was Secret of the Spiritkeeper, the kickoff novel for the Knights of the Silver Dragon young listener series for Mirrorstone Books.

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It's about the journey not the destination

I loved it. A great cat and mouse chase of a story with flavorful characters. Plenty of history and knowledge of the world without feeling like an encyclopedia. Blurs the line of good and evil, right and wrong.

Rescue the girl

Forbeck is a good writer, far better than Keith Baker, the creator of Eberron. Still, this is a cliche fantasy story. Implausible character decisions to draw out the end of the book, weak antagonist turns extra powerful when it suits the writer. The story had me believe that it will be dark fantasy in the beginning half but turned into something of kids story in the second half. Useful for DMs planning an Eberron campaign, stay away if you're looking for quality fantasy literature.

Great book

It is nice to have a better idea of the mornlands since I’m running a Eberron campaign and started the party here. Lots of lore

It is Acceptable Pulp

Where does Marked for Death rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This finished in the middle of all the audiobooks I have listened to so far.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

The ending is a good cliff hanger.

What does Claire Christie bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Clair Christie is a great voice for this. Her voices for all the characters are significantly different and appropriate in the audio description of the character. In addition her voice has great emotion in it..

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

A murder mystery turns into a chase through the Mournland.

Any additional comments?

There are a few things I can say about this. First, it is a good pulp novel. Mark of Death has quite a few interesting twists and surprises that keep it interesting. Second, it introduces you some of the religions, races, nationalities and geography I have not read about in other Eberron books. Its explanation and presentation of them is excellent. Third the pace starts out well but drags out the final scene too long. Finally, it ends quietly and not in a big climax. This leaves you satisfied but not thrilled. Also, you are anticipating, but not excited to read the next book.

good book to read

I enjoyed the book and will continue the series I just dont feel like it matches up to some other dnd books I have read like the drizzt books and it took me a little while to get used to this narrator to some others I have listened.