The cover of The Night Parade. Some sort of weird genie monster crosses his arms in the background. In the foreground, an armored woman with impossibly weird anatomy looks over her shoulder at a weird fleshy humanoid thing. The background is blue-tinged dark clouds.

The Night Parade

“It’s a wild, shambolic farrago which subverts my expectations for a Forgotten Realms novel, a horror story that’s grossly out of place among these heroic fantasy epics and owes more to Stephen King than Tolkien.”

The cover of Red Magic. A bald wizard in red robes with a tattoo on his forehead is holding a hand over a glowing red orb that's shooting tendrils of energy all around. He holds a staff with a skull on it. (I think that means he's a bad guy.)

Red Magic

“But even I know enough about wilderness survival to be sure that you shouldn’t treat a freely bleeding stab wound by rubbing a bunch of ferns into it, and you shouldn’t try sliding around the forest on gobbets of raw antelope.”

The cover of Elfshadow. On a rocky outcropping, a graceful black-haired woman wielding a sword stands next to a tall blond man who looks like a chubby football player. A giant moon fills the sky behind them.

Elfshadow

“It’s good to see elven society finally getting some attention. Despite their thousands of years of culture and history, most authors don’t go any further into characterizing elves than the usual ‘nature-loving hippies’ stereotype.”

The cover of The Parched Sea. Three people are sitting on the floor of a tent with a meal set in front of them. One is a black-robed Arab man waving a curved dagger around. The second is a veiled young woman recoiling from him. The third is a desert-robed white man who looks unconcerned about the display. The roast chicken in their meal looks like the author had never seen a cooked chicken before and drew it from a description.

The Parched Sea

“So what are we to make of this Lawrence of Anauroch? It may be derivative, but it’s certainly not boring.”