The Guardians of the Flame: Legacy

Guardians of the Flame #4-5

by Joel Rosenberg

Emperor Karl Cullinane, his son Jason, and his fellow Earth-exiles--Andrea, Ahira, Walter, and Lou--become the target of the evil Ahrmin of the Slaver's Guild in The Heir Apparent, while in The Warrior Lives, Jason Cullinane inherits a kingdom upon his father's death and a quest to rid the world of slavery, and must battle the mighty slavers guild while trying to discover the truth about his father, in an omnibus volume.

Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction

480 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1989

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Note: This is a different person than the political/thriller author, Joel C. Rosenberg

Joel Rosenberg was the author of the bestselling Guardians of the Flame books as well as the D'Shai and Keepers of the Hidden Ways series. He made his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Books 4 and 5 actually improve the series by focusing less on Karl and more on his son Jason. This makes the books more interesting as the adventures they get involved in seem more real somehow without having a warrior around that wins every fight by just busting in and chopping heads off.

The weariness of the characters start to show, the reality of life starts to catch up with some and all in all its a pretty quick fun read.

[Theresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

a great story about dungeons and dragons adventures
a compilation of the stories

[Charles McGonigal · Rating 2 out of 5]

Took some much darker turns, but didn't make them worth the change in tone. Tough to re-read a lot of this stuff I loved as a kid.

[Lynn Calvin]

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[D.L. Morrese]

I gave up on this one about 150 into it because, not having read the previous books in the series, I couldn't get a feel for the characters.