I've also played Book 3 - Beyond the Nightmare Gate - on Project Aeon. Sadly I didn't enjoy this one anywhere near as much: I'm not sure if the online play aspect of it was a big factor, as it certainly is a different experience to an actual book and feels a lot less involved and a lot more transient. However, the book also featured a lot of auto-death paragraphs, something that's been missing from the series so far. At one point you need to make three random number tests and any failure means game over and there's another bit where of four choices, I think three kill you (I died a lot in this book)
These factors led me to eventually stop rolling for things and I finished the book very quickly after that as it's actually got a very straightforward story and although there's a twist at the end, it's pretty easy to see what it is and what to do (in fact, you're told a couple of times by Tanith). I'm definitely playing book 4 to see how it finishes though. You recover the Moonstone at the end of book 3 so hopefully with GS kicking Shasarak back to whatever evil wizard pit he came out of.
These factors led me to eventually stop rolling for things and I finished the book very quickly after that as it's actually got a very straightforward story and although there's a twist at the end, it's pretty easy to see what it is and what to do (in fact, you're told a couple of times by Tanith). I'm definitely playing book 4 to see how it finishes though. You recover the Moonstone at the end of book 3 so hopefully with GS kicking Shasarak back to whatever evil wizard pit he came out of.