Series: Greyhawk Adventures Vol. 5, Mika Trilogy Vol. 3
As D&D novels go, the Greyhawk series was never as popular as the Forgotten Realms with the Drizzt stories or the Dragonlance chronicles. Although Greyhawk is actually the original setting of D&D, D&D Vanilla if you will, it never captured the imagination like those other universes did. That being said, this is a really cool novel actually.
For the last few books set in this universe we've followed Mika who is a kind of Warrior-Shaman of a wolf themed clan and his companions which include a princess turned into a wolf by magic. Ok. So now I open this book and resume the adventures of Mika... up until about a third into the book where the whole party of heroes gets stuck inside a column in a cave for 20 years.
Yes, they get completely out of the main plot, and we now follow attempts to save them by their then infant children which are now around 20 years old. Oh and those children are a half-human, half-harpy, product of Mika being raped by a harpy; and a half-wolf, half-enchanted wolf princess man, product of sex between two wolves, one of which is actually an enchanted princess. Makes sense? It actually does, just not when explaining it. The whole thing becomes an underground adventure 20 years later with Dwarves and Trolls and demon people, and it's a riot. Not great literature, but at times so weird, as you slowly see the harpy and werewolf falling in love, that it feels original. Great fun.
TL;DR: 7/10
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