Elven Star - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

Bantam Spectra, 1990, 367 pages
ISBN: 0-553-29098-3
Read January 2015, age 36

Book 2 of The Death Gate Cycle

After book two, I'm still waiting for the story to start.  This is book two of setting exploration, where the main thing to do is "go to that place, and see what's there", with no real sense of movement in any kind of greater story line.  At least in this book, it felt like there was the potential for some of the characters developed to play some sort of role in the actual story, which will probably start sometime in book 5, if the pattern I'm seeing develop holds true.

As far as it went, the setting was interesting, and the societies... well, the authors don't seem to have much trouble destroying all the world building that went into the prep of this book.  It's just too bad that the setting exposition wasn't attached to a better story.

Rating: 3