I read the book and thought it was okay, but at the same time, I saw it for what it was: a fan-fic written by a D&D nerd. It's like these weird guys that sit in the corner of the library during break period every day playing Magic:The Gathering every day. A couple years after graduation, one of those little shits somehow gets a book published, and the rest of us think, "That little fucker wrote a book?!"