Guild Wars 2

So in my library system I found Ghosts of Ascalon by Matt Forbeck and Jeff Grubb and Edge of destiny by John Robert King. Edge of Destiny seems more geared towards Guild Wars 2. (Sorry I wasn’t sure where to put this topic….haha, hopefully it’s in the right spot, but I realize these guys probably had some play in the creation of the games. I feel like such a noob for not knowing things xD)
I was just wondering if anyone here has read them and what are their thoughts on these books! :P Thanks!

As someone who has read Ghosts of Ascalon in one night without putting it down and still has to finish up Edge of Destiny I guess I can give some opinion.
Although Edge of Destiny is from the characters perhaps more obviously connected with GW2, Ghosts of Ascalon is in fact playing chronologically after EoD. Without wanting to spoiler anything, it basically involves a quest of a group of adventurers to get an item instrumental for the peace talks between humans and charr. While the setup is rather simple, maybe even cliché and the final twist was in my opinion somewhat obvious, the writing is great and gets you really invested in the characters. Which, by the way, you can find ingame, if you know where to look. For example you can find our hero, Dougal Keane, in Lion’s Arch, standing by the dungeon gear vendors. Another interesting spot might be the northwest of the Fields of Ruin. While their role in the lore may not be as publicly known to the folk of Tyria as Destiny’s Edge’s, I definitly liked it more.
Speaking of Edge of Destiny. We know the characters, we know the rough story, if we listened to the personal story encounters and the dungeon stories. What bothered me about the book is the writing. The story itself is interesting, in itself maybe even more so than that of GoA. I liked the dynamic between Rytlock and Logan, Rytlock himself made me think much more highly of charr than I did before. He’s just so cool. ^^ However, I feel the story gets dragged out too much by the many fight scenes. They might be a bit too detailed and through that too drawn out for my taste. I like how the action scenes in GoA were written, they kept a nice pace. The whole pacing of the book is kind of off to me, which is probably why I haven’t finished the last third yet. I just don’t get as emotionally involved in it as I did with Ghosts of Ascalon. (Which, at one point, made me even cry. ^^)

That’s just my opinion though. Sorry for the rant. :P If you’re a fan, then both books are worth the read, even if just to expand your knowledge of the lore. I’m definitely looking forward to the third one, though. I mean, written by Ree Soesbee herself, this can only be amazing. ^^

Thank you so much! I didn’t even think about the order! Your review helped so much!!!! I’d give you 5 stars if I could rate it!!!! Wonderful response! Yeah another description said the writing of EoD is somewhat strange and made it seem more like a video game than a book. I’m totally gonna read it though. Ghosts of Ascalon sounds better than I thought then.

I totally appreciate your response. I want you to know that! I’ll go ahead and request it from my library then! I definitely want to get to know the Guild Wars story characters better. I can’t wait to start reading! >w<

Interesting, I did the same. I read the Ghosts of Ascalon very quickly and made it about halfway through Edge of Destiny and put it down. I haven’t gotten around to finishing it.