Shadow's Witness

Forgotten Realms: Sembia, Book 2

By: Paul S. Kemp

Narrated by: John Pruden

Erevist Cale, the loyal servant of the Uskevren family, has a terrible secret. Now, when a ruthless evil is unleashed on Selgaunt, the butler's ties to the underworld may have put the Uskevren in jeopardy. Erevist must finally prove his loyalty - to the city and to the Uskevren. He won't get a second chance.

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Pruden is okay. Story is great

I was worried Cale was going to be a stiff character with a stoic personality. Luckily Cale has more depth to him than that and is able to express other emotions. He has people he cares about and isn’t afraid to feel things. Pruden was okay. I hated his narration of the first Elminster book, and he had a tendency to make weird inflections here and there. It felt like he was reading out loud for the first time. But I have heard worse and I think he’s gotten better.

Great book

Great book, narrator is the same as the other Erevis Cale books. I wish the other books in this series used the same guy instead of the horrible ones they use.

It's fine.

I don't know what to think, honestly. I felt like too much of this book was obvious and cookie cutter, but I have no idea how it could have been told in a different way. Most of the characters that were introduced in the short story anthology prior to this book were so much more interesting to me. Instead we got the butler and the thief/cleric.

In truth, that doesn't make it a BAD book, just less interesting TO ME.

The only things that might have made this story pop a little for me is if they would have used the nobles daughter instead of the thief/cleric. Maybe if the combats were a bit more active instead of just a couple sword thrusts it would have been better.

But the number one thing that bothered me was the replacement swearing. How many times does one character have to say, "Dark!" as an exclamation. No matter what word you use, when you use it this much, it's annoying.