Spellfire (novel)

Spellfire

Cover of the first edition
Author	Ed Greenwood
Cover artist	Clyde Caldwell
Language	English
Series	Shandril's Saga
Genre	Fantasy novel
Publisher	TSR
Publication date	July 1988
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Paperback)
ISBN	0-88038-587-1
OCLC	49701608
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PR9199.3.G759 S64 2002
Followed by	Crown of Fire

Spellfire is a fantasy novel written by Ed Greenwood and published in 1988. It is the first novel in Ed Greenwood's book series, Shandril's Saga, and takes place in the Forgotten Realms setting based on the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

Plot summary

The book follows the journey of an orphaned girl named Shandril who later leaves her home and embarks on a journey, thus discovering love, and of course Spellfire.

Reception

In the Io9 series revisiting older Dungeons & Dragons novels, Rob Bricken commented that "This book is terrible. It's the sort of top-to-bottom awfulness I expected to encounter when I started looking back at these D&D novels but then forgot about after I was lulled into a false sense of security by nominal competency of the first few books." ^[1]

Reviews

• Kliatt ^[2]

References

1. Bricken, Rob (September 30, 2020). "Dungeon & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting Spellfire". io9. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
2. "Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide 1989-01: Vol 23 Iss 1". Kliatt Paperback Book Guide. January 1989.

External links

• http://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/2789369-spellfire-shandril-s-saga-1 - several editions of this book exist. Later editions added several chapters.