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  • Elminster in Hell

  • Forgotten Realms: Elminster, Book 4
  • Written by: Ed Greenwood
  • Narrated by: John Pruden
  • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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Elminster in Hell

Written by: Ed Greenwood
Narrated by: John Pruden
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Publisher's Summary

Hell hath such fury...

On the world of his birth he's all but a god, but when an ancient evil banishes him to the depths of the Nine Hells, he's just another lost soul. Elminster, Sage of Shadowdale, Chosen of Mystra, faces his most desperate struggle - to survive, to escape, to cling to his very sanity - and all the forces of the inferno are rallied against him.

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The narrator did an amazing job, like all the other books. However! The story or stories in this book, took a lot of self discipline to get thought. Very slow and uninteresting.

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I wish I could have enjoyed this better

I liked this book and there were some cool scenes, but the story style kept getting in the way.

*spoilers that Elminster is in Hell in case the title didn't give it away*

We continue to have to assume he's done interesting things that we just don't know about because he's coming out of some scenario of action and into fixing hell portals right at the hop.

We are frequently hearing other stories as memories and then they're suddenly interrupted by the guest in Elminster's mind. No scene change mechanism to let us know this. Eventually you can catch on. EXCEPT then you're also not sure if they're stories of what's happening outside of Avernus, because that happens too - and somehow that's also interrupted.

I've also found this reader has their limits too. Scene transition devices weren't written very well, but so too is the lack of change in the reader's voice. A demon lord sounds like a human night, an ancient elf mage sounds like a demon maiden.

There's interesting short stories, sort of. However, they're often too short and too frequently interrupted to get anywhere. Even though Elminster is doing his best A Thousand And One Tales bit, I can't see how a mind-linked demon lord who's asking time and time again for specific things wouldn't have just given up on his prisoner and ended him completely. Instead our hero is a "worm like thing" who's limbs have been ripped off - again - and we go back in a circle.

I wanted to like the story. Don't get me wrong, there's some cool scenes. I just don't think it's the reader or the author's best work.

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