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Summary: Cranked out garbage
Review: I barely managed to get thru this. For one thing, the first half of the first book in this volume seems dedicated to doing nothing more than respewing EVERYTHING the characters had done in all the prior novels. That's not only bad form, but its a bad sign right from the start. This is purely Salvatore milking the characters he developped a long time ago in a the mostly blatant and insulting way. If this is the first of the trilogies you've read in a long time, you will be completely put off by it. For those who've kept up, it may be worth it just to see what happens to the characters, but you should be just as insulted by the fact that in the end, you bought 3 books where in fact there was at LEAST one book's worth of stuff you already read.
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: This book was absolutely amazing. it is actually 4 books in one, which makes it even better. All of the books are entertaining and full of action and adventure. As with all of Salvatore's books, this one pulls you into the pages, making you believe that you are actually with all of the characters. Drizzt and friends really shine in these books, making it a fun and exciting read.
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Summary: Homeland
Review: Homeland is Salvatore's masterpiece. I have never before been so captivated by a book. Homeland captured my interest from the very first page and 9 hours later I had completed the book and felt a sense of loss upon its completion. I have always admired Salvatore's courage to kill off major characters no matter how loved they become. With no sense of loss there can be no heroes.
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Summary: A Master Of The Fantasy Realm
Review: As with practically all of his books on and about the famed Drizzt Do'Urden, R.A. Salvatore has created yet another MASTERPIECE!! Salvatores ability to capture his reader, and make them feel every part of his books is truly exceptional. When you pick up this book and begin to read it, I know you will be like many of the others who have read before you. Which is entranced with the action, adventure, heroics, love, and best of all, suprise and suspense that Salvatore has incorparated in this novel!! R.A. Salvatore, truly an incredible figure and mediator to the fantasy novelists.
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Summary: Refreshing Fire
Review: R.A. Salvatore knows what makes a good story. He designs characters that flow and are easy to follow. He is not writing to make an artistic impression but only to entertain and challenge your left brain.
A good author is one who, as you read, you forget that it is a book at all, but a nice complex dream. This book, as well as his other forgotten realms books, have done that for me.
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Summary: AWESOME!
Review: 4 books in one, and all great! The battles in the Underedark are breathtaking, and many old enemies come into play agin. The characters are anything but flat and change a lot. Many spectacular fights, and with salvatore's colorful writing, they're that much better. Also, humor sprinkled throught the book for a little comic releif (tactic vs. mind flayers: polymorph to switch brain and rear). Also, it spreads a bit from Mithril Hall and Icewind Dale, since they go on the sea voyage which leads to some awesome battles, but why am I writing this, just buy it, it's well worth it!!
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Summary: Drizzt Rules!
Review: Simply put, this book rocks! A collection of four of Salvatore's best works, and the continuation of the Icewind Dale series, this is perfect for any fantasy fan or Salvatore buff. I mean, Drizzt, Bruenor, Wulfgar, and Cattie-Brie, plus a lotta drow nasties AND Artemis Entreri!! WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED?!?
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Summary: Oh come off it.
Review: C'mon, kids; these aren't good novels by any stretch of the imagination. I'm all for enjoying some good, escapist nerdy fantasy fiction, but this simply does not do the trick. The characters range from straight-up cliches to by-the-numbers anti-cliches. Bruenor and Regis are the ultimate cliches of dwarf and hobbit, respectively, Cattie Brie is a charmless nag, Drizzt is a poorly-developed anti-drow and Wulfgar is... a fantasy barbarian! Salvatore does a good job manipulating the reader's emotions, given his self-limited material, but it's not enough to make you actually retain interest in any of the protagonists. The villains are better, which bodes well if Salvatore decides to get off his tedious and infantile morality kick and concentate on story-telling.The plot is bizzarely rehashed from novel to novel, making at least a couple of the collected books redundant. And most irritatingly, Salvatore insults his readers' intelligence over and over again; he's not content with aiming his books squarely at junior high students, and so he assumes that he's going to be read by junior high students of sub-normal intelligence. The conflict between Drizzt and Artemis Entreri (complete with barely veiled, tingling, homo-erotic subtext) starts out with blatant and obvious mirror-image metaphors, and since Salvatore doesn't trust his readers to "get it" he repeats the theme over and over again, taking it to naked analogy and then spelling it out for anyone who didn't get it the first, second, third or fourth time. This is bad writing, and only one example thereof. Adults, approach with caution.
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Summary: The best has come
Review: Here in one book lies the best tales of the hero Drizzt. Haunted buy his past, he must once again face his hated mother, and the wicked ways of the drow. Feeling he has at last found a place on the serface Drizzt hopes he has left his past behind him. Little does he know that his forsaken homeland has turned its eyes towards Mithryll Hall looking for him. His sister hellbent on a insain cause to rule all of Menzobberanzan demands her brothers blood and wont stop until she gets it or dies trying.All this and much much more await you
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Summary: Excellent work as expected from Salvatore
Review: The legacy of the drow books are excellent reading material, they outshine any other books i rememeber having read (except maybe for Homeland, also by Salvatore). I've read quite much by Salvatore and he has become my favorite writer but to the book. It is as expected, fantastic the chapters are well written the plot is quite good the story is fantastic the details are nice BUT there are minor setbacks, such as that Salvatore keeps describing things in every book... i mean he describes Aegis fang in i think all the books, and Guenhwyvars onyx figurine in all the books (finely carved blah blah) not that the description is bad.. on the contrary it's quite enjoying to read it and picture the items but it gets tedious to read it all over again in every book (you know what i mean) the second MINOR setback is that his style in a very very few parts in the books are a bit monotonous, not versatile enough. The rest is on the other hand quite versatile and the books .. none of them EVER gets boring, the next chapter is always more exciting than the last. I willingly give the books 5 stars and hope this review gives you at least a little idea of how the book is and weather you'd enjoy it or not! ;)
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