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Summary: Insipid Love Story
Review: I am a big fan of Salvatore and have enjoyed almost every Dark Elf book as well as the Cleric and Dragon's Dagger series. However, I was none too enthused with this book and it took me a great deal of time to read. I barely glossed over anything having to do with Jaka and I was disappointed with the absence of Drizzt, I kept expected him to pop up especially since exerpts from his journal were used. I also found Wulfgar's struggles with alcoholism, flashbacks and wavering moral fortitude somewhat forced and his continuing escapes from "justice" with no gratitude for those who helped him tiring. I will not read this book again and if anyone wants to buy it I'll sell!
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Summary: Aaron
Review: This book was amazing. Chalk up another victory for Salvatore. In this novel he explores the depths of despair surrounding Wulfgar. Now a man emotionaly scarred for life, Wulfgar can never truly abandon the dignity, honor, and courage bred into him by Bruenor, Catti-brie, and Drizzt. But he can bend it to the limit. Reading this book is like looking into Wulgar's soul.
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Summary: Not bad all in all a good book
Review: Well I was a bit annoyed that Drizzt wasn't in this book but after seeing what Wulfgar had to go through it made the book a lot more interesting. The peasent girl story was an interesting distraction from what was becoming the typical Wulfgar getting drunk and fighting. All in all it was a good book and a great addition to the collection.
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Summary: Long wait in shallow waters
Review: I have always been a dedicated fan of R.A. Salvatore, especially his character drizzt. Unfortunatly, this book was a let down as Salvatore did not describe things in as much depth as he usualy would, but this was still a great read. One thing that disapointed me was that wulfgar lost hammer andd this really anoyed me. The main reason I like wulfgar is due to his hammer, and i hope in "Servant of the Shard", he will get it back. I also found it pathetic thst at te end everyone believed meralda's baby was wulfgars daughter. People like Priscila should of realised his shouldn t be so. As I say, I waited a long time for this book, but it was a bit shallow.
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Summary: Almost a blond Conan....I said, almost!
Review: A very enjoyable book...I expected another "Dark Elf Installment" but what I got was almost like an old Robert E Howard, Conan story! Not as gritty, bloody, or explicit as Conan was at his best...but close enough as Wulfgar's major battles took place in his mind. The only major complaint was that the majority of characters had names that would seem more at home on Tattoine or in a Corellian Spaceport rather than in Faerun! I'm looking forward to "Servant of the Shard" even though the cover illustration of Jarlaxle makes him look like E.T. and Mr Spock's bastard child! Salvatore's work can stand on it's own but he needs to have Larry Elmore do his covers again!
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Summary: Marelda and Wulfgar...
Review: This book was truly enjoyable. I was hesitant to start reading it, I've never really liked Wulfgar, but once I picked it up, I finished it in no time. There was character interaction I thought was beliveable and had characters I cared about. Just enough action in the right places, too.I really liked the part with Marelda. In the begining I had to wonder why it was there, but after that, I just wanted to see how Salvatore would wrap the two stories together without ruining either one. He managed it really well. Anyway, I do, now anyway, appreciate Wulfgar more, but I want Drizzt back.
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Summary: Setting up Wulfgar's future
Review: This book is probably more realistic than any of the previous Icewind Dale, or Dark elf books. Except in brief sections, all of the characters are human. I enjoyed that Wulfgar and Morik are not the best combat team in the world, and they do not have amazing weapons, so they do not win all of the time. Some readers found Wulfgar's frequent flashbacks annoying, but they are there to demonstrate Wulfgar's hate for himself, for the things that he has done, and the situations that he gets himself into in order to bring the torture back to the surface. His morals still stand, while he is sober, but he takes his pain out on others while he is not. The story of Marelda, Jaka, and Lord Feringal, was a bit slow, and more drawn out than it could have been, however I'm sure that there is a future purpose for them. While I was reading it, I found it vaguely annoying, like a childish romance novel thrown into an adventure. The situation seemed somewhat realistic, although I was worried about the idiocy of Feringal at the beginning. I didn't think that the journal entries of Drizzt were necessary for the book, but they didn't detract too much from the story. Overall I think that this book is probably intended to set up situations for future books.
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Summary: Slow... but worth it.
Review: i trule enjoyed this book. granted it was slow in the beggining and true thepart with the girl did annoy me a lot, but i still was very impressed with it. it is hard to imagine what those six years were like much less try to put to gether what theyd do to a person. i like the fact that salvatore can write about people other than the infamous dark elf, and this book gave more depth to wulfgar as a charcter. i too await the next instalment in this series. thats how i ended up here in the first place. good jod and keep it up salvatore
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Summary: Not too bad, BUT...
Review: After the MARVELLOUS "Silent Blade" this seems kinda... flat? I know that the IDEA in the Icewind Dale trilogy was to make Wulfgar the big hero, but as it is: Drizzt rules. Thus I was a bit... unamused by the idea that Wulfgar (clearly a "back-up character" in the former books) would get a Solo-book for himself. I recall seeing Drizzt mentioned only once. On one page. (snort!) Still; a good book if you like D&D/Forgotten Realms, but to my tastes Wulfgar seems too brutish and shallow to ever surpass Drizzt's level of charisma. A must for those who've read all the Drizzt&Fellows books, though. (Gotta keep up to the story!) ... My 10 cents.
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Summary: Horribly Dissapointed...Bored Even.
Review: Look, Im not just all about the scimitars and people getting killed every two seconds. The grandiose fights are really good to read but I understand what it takes to build them up so that the retaking of Mithril Hall is so great to read. Keeping that in mind, this book was the worst Salvatore book that I ever read by far. I think that he wanted to try to focus more on the intricacies of Wulfgar's character in this book because frankly we dont have much insight into his character from other books as much as we do other people. As far as the peasent girl story goes, where the hell did that come from. That basically has nothing to do with the series as a whole and seems like it is filler for the book or something. And what is up with Wulfgar "lapsing into thoughts of the abyss" every two seconds in the book? For the amount of times that he is found lying on the floor in the fetal position, he could be diagnosed as an epileptic. My favorite books of all time are this whole series all the way back from the beginning, which is why I feel it is my place to be so critical of this book. I even found some spelling errors in the book, and they werent even words that are just spelled funky to fit into the fantasy realm. Right before this book I read a Tom Clancy book that absolutely plodded along and was so boring that I wasnt even mildly interested until page 300. The only reason that I mention this is because I had a recent comparison and this book isnt turning out to be any better. Maybe he was on a deadline to publish another for this series, maybe he doesnt want to write for this series anymore. Who knows. Either way, from what I have seen from Salvatore, I dont think that if he put in his normal effort into this book it would be this bad. I am going to finish the book because it would be just wrong to skip a book in this series, but lets hope he turns it around in the next book or I am going to think that he should have ended this series earlier on a high note. Even though I know he wont read this, but sorry Mr Salvatore, I guess when you are the best its hard to be perfect all the time.
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