Archie D. (AlexDisKing) reviewed on 6/1/2010 + 6 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

In the original Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide Gary Gygax wrote an appendix ( appendix N) that listed books that influenced the creation of Dungeons and Dragons. This book appeared on the list and that is what lead me to read it.

Three Hearts and Three Lions takes us through the journeys of Holger Carlsen. Carlsen is a Danish engineering student in America who returns to his home to fight the Nazis during World War Two. During the course of a combat action he is knocked out, when he awakes he is in a parallel universe where it is the middle ages and magic is real. This world that Carlsen appears in is a battleground between the forces of Law and the forces of Chaos. Law is represented by knights like Holger Carlsen's alter ego Sir Holger.Chaos is represented by the Fey and those that consort with them.

The book is well written. The creatures of the realm of Faerie were described in such a way that it left me wanting to learn more of them ( I ended up ordering a book entitled Faeries by Brian Froud and Alan Lee).The battles are well written and the action moves along nicely. I have a short attention span, I often read several books off and on; Three Hearts and Three Lions kept my attention the whole way through. The book weighs in at a quickly readable 238 pages, it left me wanting more.

If you enjoy fantasy novels, but you are tired of the standardized formulas that developed in the post Tolkien era, then this is a read for you.

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