This book was weird. It felt like Greenwood wrote the first half of the book, wasn't sure where it was going, so then wrote a completely different, unrelated second half of the book. I ended up feeling very, very confused.

Love Forgotten Realms! This one took me a bit to get on board but it might have helped had I read #1 and #2 first! They are getting hard to find though!!!💗💗💗💗

The Temptation of Elminster by Ed GreenwoodMystra, Elminster's personal lover and god has made him her chosen and sent him on another quest. Mystra is trying to spread magic and I assume assuage her own personal power but that is not explicitly obvious. A wealth of disjointed characters are introduced in this volume. Disjointed is the operative word in this book. It is almost a collection of vignettes on magic it's benefits and abuses. Character after character is introduced, most of deplorable

"The Temptation of Elminster" is... good. The book requires a steel will or an unprecedented love for D&D, Faerun or Elminster. While the writing remains as good as with the previous books, this one feels as though it is a collection of short stories, mutually connected only by Elminster.There is an array of characters we do not get to know enough to care about them, all set up as puzzle pieces whose final image is not as satisfying as one might hope for. Maybe taken apart and improved, the char...

A Chosen One Sleeps For A Century Or More. The Realms did not sleep while our chosen one sleep. Once awake we learn more of the Realms as the past comes looking for El.

This one was actually one of the better ones in the series.

I read a little more than half, and just got tired of the character and the whole story (what there was). It is well written, and I enjoy some of the banter, description and magic elements, but just not enough "meat" there. The earlier in the series were similar but kept me engaged. This one, well, it bored me and there are a LOT of better things out there to read so I did something I rarely do. Which is just stop reading. Probably will NOT read any others in the series.

Ed Greenwoods books on Elminster are amaizing! I trust noone else to write as well on the subject of such a wizard! They've got to be neer perfection, if not they have acheived perfection! Again! FANTACY! Its basically all I read! Don't expect me to change! XP!

Kind of hard to follow if you’re not good at remembering like 30 peoples weird names. Overall it was good and the settings were vivid, but the story was all over the place with no real outcome.

I'll never forgive myself for reading this God forsaken series. Complete diarrhea like the previous two, this one was just too much for me to finish.

There's certainly a lot going on in The Temptation of Elminster, but I'm not sure, as I worked my way through the novel, that I was always clear on exactly what. At one point, Elminster's patron goddess asks him to serve an evil wizardess; I'm not sure why. At another point, Elminster is tasked with leaving magical artifacts in tombs and ruins. I understood the reasons for this a bit better, but totally missed the scene where he was told to do this. (Or did I miss it; was it even in the 400+ pag...

I couldn't do it...I couldn't make it past the first chapter. The writing was so piss poor...and hackneyed...and so retarded...ugh...don't get me started.Edit: I re-read this book this summer and liked it more than I did originally. Not sure why.

A personal favorite of mine that I feel is one of Ed Greenwood's best stories. It's best to have read the first two books of Elminster's making, but if you jump in right here you won't be disappointed.

I've noticed that with a lot of the early Forgotten Realms series, the concept of a trilogy is lost in whatever haphazard publication was going on. The Elminster series is a good example of that. The first book opened with a prologue that was never revisited, the second had a cohesive storyline, and the third jumps forward 500 years and spends a great deal of the narrative seeming to be jumbled and bouncing around quite a bit.

I remember being trapped on a business trip and hoping that there was something better than harlequin romance to read. Well-written but such a terrible story. The cover is intriguing right? Does he fall in love? Is the temptation power or some corruption because of his godlike power? You’d be right and wrong on all counts and it is not because of plot twists.

The second half of this book is far superior to the first, and ultimately worth the wait, I suppose.The overall plot roams and rambles, to the point that sometimes you feel like the author is jumping you around just to confuse you. In the end, though, Greenwood takes advantage of most of the characters he has setup throughout the novel to some degree.His signature wit and enjoyable descriptions are plentiful, and the notes of humor are sharp while not overly done. In the end it's not his best wo...

I didn't like this as much as previous books in the Elminster series. I found the plot very wandering and thin. There seemed to be little to no reason for what happened in most of the book.

Here we see the Old Mage has awoken from being trapped for many years, long enough for Myth Drannor to turn from being a beautiful city of elves and magic into a forsaken ruin occupied only by the demons and the damned.Finding nothing but silence from his goddess, Elminster is visited by the god of magic Azuth, and is told that Mystra's avatar has been bound and he needs to free her.So Mystra is bound, magic goes awry, Elminster goes on a crusade to save her and succeds, but it's not really clea...

This book moves the story of Elminster ahead several centuries. He begins in stasis trapped in a tomb freed he finds magic has become unreliable and must survive on his wits and the skills he picked up earlier in his life. Elminster undergoes further magical training by my a wicked sorceress named The Lady of Shadows. He becomes her court wizard when she takes over the realm of Galadorna. This book isn't so much about Elminster vs some evil, it is more about the effect Elminster has on his surro...

It's getting harder and harder to read these books... I do love the stories of Elminster as he was always a legend in the D&D adventures I played growing up. Just now going back and reading a lot of these types of books I've collected. However, the writing is very tough to get through -- and I'm not so sure if it's Greenwood, or the editorial process/review of the book - but honestly it was a very tough book to get through.