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Summary: Drizzt RETURNS!
Review: Drizzt makes an incredible comeback in RA Salvatore's Forgotten Realms books. The unstoppable Drow is now tasked with giving the Crystal Shard, Crenshinibon, into the care of Cadderly. Cadderly is a priest/scholar of the god Deiner; he's from another one of Salvatore's series. Drizzt and crew get a shock as the loose some of their crew - Wulfgar! Having return from the Abyss, he is mentally scarred, and the hammer totin' Barbarian abandons his friends, after proving to himself that he wasn't stable enough to be with them - he smacked Cattie-brie by accident! This book focuses on Drizzt, though, and his rivalry with Artemis Entreri, Master Assassin. Entreri comes to be allied with Jarlaxle, a drow from the mercenary band of Bergan D'aerthe, of Menzoberranzan. When Jarlaxle manages to accquire the Shard from Drizzt's party by use of the psionic powers of his assosciates, he erects the Crystal Tower once again. Drizzt and his friends go to stop Jarlaxle, and Jarlaxle sets up Entreri's last dream - a duel with Drizzt. The powers of the Shard create a dueling room, and Drizzt and Entreri enter... I don't want to spoil it for you, but the fight scene is INCREDIBLE! I believe it's Salvatore's best work yet! You've just GOT to read this book if: a) you're a Drizzt nut; b) you're a Forgotten Realms fan; c) you love fantasy novels; d) you like something else by Salvatore; or e) you have ANY taste in books!
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Summary: Another Great R.A. book
Review: although i was disappointed with the noticable lack of Drizzt, this was still another great book by Salvatore which continues the long line of books usually focusing on the dark elf, but oh well.
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Summary: Is Entreri finally letting it go?
Review: Once again Artimis Entreri is back in his home city of Calimport. Defeated, shaken by the shatering attack on his very existence by his trip into dark Menzobarranzan, he returns to Calimport older, wiser, and with more doubts than he has ever faced. His once rigid control has faded into apathy, and he honestly does not care anymore about the things for which he strove so passionately for before he met Drizzt Do-Urden. Now he must regroup if he desires to again be the greatest fighter in Toril. But has he finally let go of his obsession with proving himself better than Drizzt? Drizzt and his companions have returned from their battle with the Demon Urrtu. And now the go to destroy the crystal shard. Wulfgar is haunted by the tortures he was subjected to, and cannot continue life as if nothing has happened. Now he runs from his friends, perhaps to lose them as he struggles to find himself. Salvatore is perhaps one of the best Writers at giving the characters, even the minor ones, an individual life and a humanity that makes them so real they could step out of the pages and speak to you. He continually draws us into a world where anything is possible, and it is.
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Summary: Great adventure for all characters...
Review: Drizzt is back, as well as the many supporting characters. Most intriguing here is the melding of the Underdark characters with those on the surface. Most enjoyable was the battle of Drizzt with archnemesis Artemis. The end result surprising. Also, the appearance of Jarlaxle with the cunning and mighty Bregan D'aerthe brings another pleasant variable to the novel. I thoroughly enjoyed this book which has set up the rest in this series nicely.
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Summary: Salvatore Hits a New Low
Review: Once a die hard Drizzt fan, I was intensely dissappointed by The Silent Blade. R.A. still retains his remarkable ability to grip the reader, sucking you into another world so tangible you can almost imagine it's out there somewhere. I truly did enjoy many of the individual scenes, especially those with Entreri in Calimport, for the vivid details R.A. provides. Sadly, however, Silent Blade represents the continuing decline of R.A's ability to write good plots. At every turn I thought of better, more exciting ways R.A. could have developed the story. R.A's tighly crafted, almost flawlessly conceived plot in his first book (The Crystal Shard) seems more miraculous with each passing book as his plots become worse and worse. However, after the last few books I wasn't expecting the greatest plot ever. The one thing I didn't expect was to see R.A. losing his grip on his characterizations, which has always one of his strongest suits. Bruenor and Regis have become mere charicatures of the stereotypical dwarf and halfling (How many times does R.A. mention Regis' love of food?) Catti-brie is little better, undergoing no devlopement at all. At first it seems like R.A. is breathing new life into the characters of Wulfgar and Entreri with Wulfgar's mental anguish and Entreri's loss of purpose but he disappoints in the end (you'll have to read the book to know what I mean). I even found myself questioning some of Drizzt's lines, saying to myself 'that doesn't sound like Drizzt.' He just doesn't ring true as the old Drizzt we all loved. Perhaps R.A. no longer has as good a feel for these characters as he did when he only wrote Drizzt books, having written so many other books recently. To my mind, he should have stopped after The Legacy. I've stuck with R.A. through 11 books, but I doubt I'll read the next one.
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Summary: R.,A. Salvatore, one of the best writers of FR series
Review: This is the first book I recieved that was of the forgotten realms I looked at the series before and thought hey its a kids thing, when I passed by in Hastings. But it was a gift so I thought I would check it out, what I found started me on a long path of trying to read all Of Salvatore's works, I think he is one of the best authors in this series. After that I thought hey might as well check out the other books in Forgotten Realms, and I am glad I did, all I can say is I am glad this book and others of Salvatore's books are out there because I wouldn't have found this awsome series. defiantely a book worth reading.
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Summary: Silent Blade a novel for Drizzt fans.......
Review: i personally thought this book was a great addition to the life of Drizzt Do'Urden featuring an epic battle between rival equals. the drama starting between Cattie-brie,Wulfgar,and Drizzt is entertaining but Salvatore please just let Drizzt and Cattie-Brie have a chance together. this book is for Drizzt fans tailored with adventure and intrigue, and for those ad&d players this book has some pretty good ideas for campaigns and character plots. i highly recommend this book to anyone who likes a good fantasy story......and Salvatore please get Drizzt in theaters!!!
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Summary: To all you Salvatore sycophants out there who can't...
Review: ...understand the criticism of this book you see here. First of all, have you ever played D&D? Have you read a significant number of Forgotten Realms books? If you have, you will easily see how Salvatore's novels have become more and more poorly written. The novels he has churned out recently have become extremely shallow and have the character depth of a nursery rhyme. His fall from the excellent writing in the Dark Elf Trilogy make this even more tragic.If you are entertained by a shallow, superfluous story about characters that are now only characterized by the clothes they wear and the weapons they carry, I understand your rave review of Salvatore's recent attempts. They can certainly be entertaining to early and pre-teens. I highly recommend exploring the immersion in the Realms that OTHER authors can provide.
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Summary: Salvatore is back with a vengence!
Review: This book was absolutely Salvatore reborn! It took me back to the days of the Crystal Shard and Dark Elf trilogy (IMHO his BEST series) in spades. The aventurers were together again and best of all Drizzt's equal(?), Artemis Entreri, was back as well! I enjoy the books with Artemis the best because of the fact that there is no overwhelming foe to defeat, ie... a whole drow city or the minions of a demon, just a man seeking to know the truth about who is the best, as "equals" go. The final battle was an artwork in itself. I was able to imagine every detail through the expert writing of Salvatore. If you quit reading Salvatore after the Drow series...START AGAIN! This book is a must! I can't wait for the future books!
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Summary: Silient blade ok
Review: I tink dis bok is prety good cause it have a lot of action an stuff. One ting bother me is arte E is gettin old. Now when sim killin Beowoolf was a oldster he done got kilt by that dragon we do not see him going on in his old age woorying bouts being slow and stuff. I tink it was cool on the river sort of a hock sawer trips ut ah they do have any Jim to or maybe Jim wold be Drizzt cause people look down on him cause his race too. I thought that I big gaint orangutan would of fit well in dis book it is strong and smelly and happy in its nice tree nest and this book lacks a real goat song comic element and nearly fails at its inane exestential attempts but it is good if ya lik cheapstreet pulp like me cause them grk tings always be hurtin my fat brain, and I be trined by power brain. SO FER GOOD READING GO READ THE similaarian by jrr tolkien but fer nice pulp this is not to bad.
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