inlibrisveritas
Written on Oct 15, 2010
Now that you have some info on the games I can tell you about the book. I believe this is based around after Fable 2 and sometime before Fable 3, so if you have played the games some thing will seem familer. However the book does not follow any characters with which you have met in the games previously but instead follows a young man named Thomas and his servant and friend James as they go on a quest to find the mythical Balverines, that Thomas has seen kill his brother. Along the way they find out that more than Balverines exist and they have hope that Heros do still exist as well.
Overall for a book based on a video game it was fairly good. My only complaint is the writing, it could have been a bit better than it was. I didn't mind so much until around the last few chapters when the Hero of Will, Skill, and Strentgh take premise in it... it was like a constant reminder of what they were and seemed overly unnecessary. A few things in the book happened so suddenly that I had to reread it a few times to understand what happened, I do understand that when you play the game you get surprised by things a lot but I don't particualrly like that to happen frequently as I read. However as I said the book was pretty good for something so short, and it did deal with the concept of a Hero in a decent manner. If another book like this comes out then I will probably buy.