Let me start by saying I enjoyed this book but found it a little disappointing. This may be because the other two Eberron books I have read were so good. But, as I said, I did enjoy this book and there were a number of things I liked about it:First, the premise on which it was based was both interesting an intriguing. Basically, in Eberron there are twelve Dragonmarked Houses. A select few of the members of these houses are born with (or develope) dragonmarks which are marks on the body that loo...

OMG! This is one of the worst D&D Books I've ever read. And that's saying something. The book is the same thing over and over again. Find person, capture person, said person escapes. Ad Nausem. ARGH! I have a pretty low threshold for D&D books, but this one is well under even my poor threshold

Real light read, short and formulaic but diverting.

A decent series set in the Eberron campaign setting for D & D.

A dragonmark thought long lost to Eberron may have suddenly reappeared, throwing a former elite soldier and his companions into turmoil and chase across a magically scarred wasteland.This entire series might have the biggest "cool stuff about setting or I'd steal for a game" vs. "painful to read" split of all the D&D novels I've ever read.The good: a neat look at the Mournland, a cool encounter with an undead elf, and airship, and some great warforged material.The bad: repetitive and wheel-spinn...

An action packed and intriguing start to a subject that Eberron fans want to hear about.

[REVIEW TO COME LATER UPON RE-READ.]

I'm new to the Eberron setting, and this one didn't exactly ease me in to the world. I kept feeling like I should know something of what was going on elsewhere already. Thinking it might not be a good place to start for a n00b. Also the opening chapters are about a dismembered female, which is kinda upsetting. Just not my thing.

There were a couple things about the Eberron setting that were left for individual DMs to define and use as they wished and the lost dragonmark was one... and the SECOND novel published seems to use it!? Now, there are two more novels in this series so I'll see how it goes, and the Eberron wiki says it isn't clear it's THE lost dragonmark or perhaps just an aberrant dragonmark (as seen in the first novel) but for the second novel published I would think they would have just steered clear of the

Forbek's first attempt at the Eberron campaign setting was pleasing. The plot line is great and should lead to highly pleasing follow-up novels. The characters are very entertaining, and while they are extremely stubborn (and frustrating), you'll find yourself really getting to know them and caring about what happens to them. The fight scenes are intense and well-done, with brutal injuries being handed out left and right in realistic and gory detail. While many of the previous reviewers have com...

It's really about 2.5 stars for me. Interesting world development and a peak into a section of a cool realm. The problems: Super repetitive, after a mostly solid start it is "girls is taken, girl is recovered, girl is taken, girl is recovered, girl is taken" etc etc. Idiotic characters: I'm not just talking about the lack of development of the characters (they're all SUPER flat) but they constantly make idiotic decisions that have no place in the world they're supposed to live in. Then add the r...

Marked for Death is the first book in The Lost Mark trilogy. The second book in the trilogy is The Road to Death and the final book is The Queen of Death. The Lost Mark trilogy is set in the Eberron universe based on the Dungeons and Dragons setting of the same name. Matt Forbeck has written a number of novels, short stories, role-playing game rule/guide books, comic books, and video games. He has written a number of series including; the Blood Bowl series (Blood Bowl, Dead Ball, Death Match, an...

This started off as a great book, but eventually became a repetitive loop of find the girl, lose the girl, find the girl, lose the girl. It is not so much a book unto itself, but rather the first chapter in an trilogy designed to draw in more money for WotC. I'm glad I only borrowed it from the library and didn't actually pay for it.On the upside, it does give some great background for the Mournland of Eberron.

Amazing writing and plotline, a bit predictable though.

Matt kicks off the Eberron campaign setting with an action-packed tale that blends some old west sensibilities re-skinnned for a fantasy tale (notably a sheriff and his posse), a quest for a kidnapped daughter and a lot of undead adversaries. Things around the Mournland are creepy, weird and dangerous -- a sense of danger that is maintained throughout the narrative. The hallmark of this story is the action scenes.

An extremely solid start to this trilogy. The only real letdown is the latter sixty to seventy pages, where the relatively fantastic pacing suddenly slows to a crawl so the author can depict the same events from multiple different perspectives in a very repetitive manner. Other than that, the first three hundred pages of this book are extremely well-written for a pulp novel, with snappy writing, decent characterisation, fun action, and cool set pieces.The story revolves around a justicar, Kandle...

Very cyclical and cliche in format. Love the concepts and loved the way that the world was presented by the author. That being said, the character development was poor. I'm listing it, because there really isn't that much to say: veteran protagonist must save helpless daughter, she's kidnapped, trusty sidekick helps the vet from "The Last War" (which is a fantastic concept that we can only hint at because this is an absolute world-building book and series--bear in mind this book is a subseries i...

Firstly - this is a D&D novel. No quality expectations here - just unmitigated tripe. But for a D&D novel, I quite enjoyed it. Eberron is my favorite of the published campaign settings, and this book did well capturing the noir/pulp magitech combo that makes Eberron what it is. The writing was halfway decent, the characters were actually quite engaging, and the plot was only mildly nonsensical. As I said - few expectations, but a great trashy read for a rainy day.

Matt Forbeck is not a terrible writer, and I didn't hate what I read here, but here's the problem: I got nearly 100 pages in, and while a couple of the characters were starting to come into their own, for the most part there were just too many, and the fairly obvious main plot which was building in the background just got NO screentime ... it didn't feel like a natural, organic build, it felt like ... let's throw filler out to make this into a trilogy. It just got to be a slog after awhile. Frus...

Reading this trilogy by recommendation of my friend Melissa. This is my first foray into reading anything rooted in the world of Eberron, but so far it's an entertaining adventure story. It badly needed more attention from the editor than it got, though, so be aware that there are quite a few typos, and at least one spot where I'm fairly sure the writer had referenced one character when he probably meant to reference another for the scene to have made sense. Otherwise fun though.