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The Best of the Realms
- A Forgotten Realms Anthology
- Narrated by: Liza Ross
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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Rise, and be not afraid. Widespread and many-tentacled is the evil that threatens Faern. Before its heart can be found, all of the Seven Sisters will play a part, and all too much blood will be spilled...drow blood. Seven linked novellas tell seven stories of seven sisters by the creator of the Forgotten Realms world!
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Publisher's Summary
This novel anthology, is to mark the 10th anniversary of the "Realms of..." novel anthologies. There have been eight Forgotten Realms anthologies (see below) and Wizards of the Coast are inviting FR fans to select which short stories from those anthologies should be included in this new collection. A new short story by R A Salvatore is to be included in the collection.
The short stories included in this anthology are as follows (in survey rank order): 1. "Rite of Blood" - Elaine Cunningham (Realms of the Underdark) 2. "Elminster at the Magefair" - Ed Greenwood (Realms of Valor) 3. "Darksword" - Troy Denning (Realms of Shadow) 4. "Blood Sport" - Christie Golden (Realms of Infamy) 5. "Six of Swords" - William W. Connors (Realms of Magic) 6. "The Rose Window" - Monte Cook (Realms of Mystery) 7. "The First Moonwell" - Douglas Niles (Realms of Magic) 8. "The Greatest Hero Who Ever Died" - J. Robert King (Realms of Infamy) 9. "Tertius and the Artifact" - Jeff Grubb (Realms of the Arcane) 10. "Red Ambition" - Jean Rabe (Realms of Magic) 11. "The Common Spell" - Kate Novak-Grubb (Realms of Magic) 12. "Assassin's Shadow" - Jess Lebow (Realms of Shadow) 13. "And the Dark Tide Rises" - Keith Francis Strohm (Realms of the Deep)
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- Brian
- 03-08-18
Old stories
Too many short stories from older anthologies. Shouldn't cost a full credit. Three more words.
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- Dan
- 11-11-16
Not bad though
Playback would randomly pause and back up about 3 seconds and start again audio was downloaded not streamed.
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- Victor
- 03-31-20
Yeah...nah...yeah?
Interesting stories but the performance leaves something to be desired. Definitely could be improved.
Some of these short stories are definitely better than others, however they do a good job of introducing very interesting characters who feature in novels of their own.
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- Joseph
- 08-14-16
Story telling done right.
Love the narration story, characters, plot twists more give me more. Wish i could buy the hole series.
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- chris Peterson
- 07-01-15
the narrator was horrible
the narrator was horrible, she made the stories boring and overall I had a very hard time completing the book.
