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[sweetpirate.livejournal.com]

So I was in Barnes and Noble last night, perusing the sci/fi section, when I came across Death of a Darklord by LKH. It didn't really say what the story was about when I flipped it over, just that it was by 'best selling author, LKH, author of the AB:VH series'. Has anyone else seen this? Been exceedingly brave and maybe even read it? I read the first few pages (some small hope still lives that she wrote a sequel to Nightseer) but it definitely wasn't a world that I've read by her before.

Although, if she really did write this while writing DM, it might explain why she can't keep track of anything. Post its can only hold so much information...

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[http://users.livejournal.com/belladonna_/]

According to Amazon, it's a re-issue of a 1995 book written by LKH (and possibly a co-author) in a series set in one universe that's written by lots of different authors. IIRC, Ravenloft is a series based on an RPG? Like the Warhammer 40K books or the Dragonlance books. It seems like there's a name for that... novelizations? Tie-ins? I dunno.

Anyway, I'd imagine that the publishers of the series have re-issused the book around the DM publication in an attempt to capitalize on LKH's fame.

I've never read any of the Ravenloft books.

[mneiai.livejournal.com]

As stated above, it's not a truly original novel, it's for Ravenloft. You know how, like, White Wolf has novels for Vampire: The Masquerade? Or how there's books for Star Wars? And they are in the same universe, but by different authors? That's what this is.

I also heard it was really bad, though I never read this series.

And, yeah, I still want to know why she can be such a hotshot author, now, and still not have published the sequel to Nightseer. I want to see it not just because I enjoyed Nightseer, but because it was written before her sudden slump into sexual-everything.

[sweetpirate.livejournal.com]

You know, as much as I hope, I'm not even sure she actually wrote a sequel to Nightseer. I know at one point (in a land far, far away, where sanity wasn't only an option) she mentioned something about either not writing a sequel to it, or not being able to get it published-back in the day.

I'm glad everyone else knows the answer to my question. I'd hate to spend good money on more of her crap, just for curiosity's sake.

[mneiai.livejournal.com]

The way I heard it was that she had written a sequel, but she couldn't get it published (not surprising, Nightseer wasn't that great of a book, I see it more as a guilty pleasure sort of thing...the pacing, though, was horrid). When they re-released Nightseer after LKH started doing better, there was some noise in the fandom that if it sold well they'd release the (already written) sequel.

[ditaykan.livejournal.com]

I really hope they do, if it was written and completed before she went sex-crazy. Nightseer is probably my favorite book by LKH.

[rantingmule.livejournal.com]

You win the internet for mentioning White Wolf. XD

[lydaiya.livejournal.com]

It was written as part of the Ravenloft series, but it is sort of a Dragonlance book. If you've read first six Dragonlance books, or the even just the second trilogy about the twins, you may remember Lord Soth, who was condemned to relive the night he let the Cataclysm fall upon the world once for each person who died. Then he ended up working for Kitiara, fell in love with her, and set her up to get killed because he could only have her if she were dead. Death of a Dark Lord, which I did read many years ago, takes up just after Kitiara's death. Her spirit somehow escapes from him (and now I find myself wondering if she might not have been an original Anita or something, in spite of being evil, because the only real explanation for how this happens is that Kit is just that darn special), and Soth somehow, I can't recall how, ends up in the Ravenloft realm, doing battle with some evil someone or other there. I remember nothing else about it.

Ravenloft

[freulan1.livejournal.com]

No, that's the second book. _Knight of the Black Rose_ was written by someone else years before _Death of a Dark Lord_ (which was about some other Lord of a Land no one cared about (as far as I remember)).

Re: Ravenloft

[lydaiya.livejournal.com]

... [blushes] Oops. You're right. I am an idiot.

Re: Ravenloft

[freulan1.livejournal.com]

Those books do tend to blur together. They're all depressing and hopeless in the end. I can barely even remember the wererat book by Tanya Huff.

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what they said.

I'll probably get it eventually...used, online, for $3 or less. Because a) I don't want to give the author any kind of financial support and b) I'm just a cheap bitch like that.

[dinsedaledarby.livejournal.com]

I liked Nightseer. I don't think she'll ever go back to it. I have to read that book again. After I read it like four years ago I wanted to write a book like that....