Part 2 of the Icewall trilogy picks up a couple of years after the previous book, The Messenger. The humans and ogres of Icereach have kept an uneasy truce for the last few years while the humans recover. Now, the ogres, with the help of The Alchemist have discovered a new extremely powerful magical weapon. Stariz, the High Priestess, forces the King into an all-out attack on the humans. Kerrick, Moreen and Strongwind must find a way to survive and neutralize this wonder-weapon. They also pick up where they left off in their very slow burning romantic triangle.
Compared to the previous book, the plot here is a little rushed and obvious. There's also what feels like an extremely contrived appearance by two of Krynn's more annoying races, tinker gnomes and gully dwarves, almost as if the author was forced to include them. Still, this was faced paced, well written and fun. The other problem with this one is the wonder-weapon, it is very much off of the top end of the scale for Dungeons and Dragons weapons of any kind. ( )