Book Review – Dragon Age: Asunder by David Gaider

So I finished this book earlier last year, but never got around to posting about it.

Asunder is a book from the Dragon Age universe – a video game world which, if you’ve been around here for any length of time, you’ve probably learned that I have have an unhealthy love for. I love the setting, I love the characters, I love the stories (mostly) and I even love the flaws because of the discourse it creates.

And Asunder, like The Calling before it, is a nice little romp through a world I love. It serves as an origin story for the character of Cole from Dragon Age: Inquisition, and it does well at filling in his background a little more completely. It also introduces two characters that I wish we saw more of in the game – Rhys and Evangeline. They’re an interesting and multifaceted pair which I’d like to see more development of in the future – particularly because of their connection(s) to Wynne from the first DA game (I’m trying not to spoil anything here, but it’s REALLY HARD to talk about this without doing so!).

As with The Calling, some of the fight scenes did drag on a little too long for my tastes, crossing the line from exciting into slightly tedious – but it was really nice to get a little more background not only on Cole, but on the Mage Rebellion as a whole, and how it went down in places other than Kirkwall.

To Summarize: Like The Calling, it’s no great work of literature, but it’s a fun little read if you’re into DA. If you’re not a DA fan, you might not have ANY idea what’s going on (I can’t really speak for how well it sets the world up for people not already acquainted with the DA world), so take that for what you will.

Overall Rating: 4/5 stars

Would Recommend To: any fans of Dragon Age.