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Summary: Single volume of Salvatore's newest Drizzt novels
Review: This is a collection of novels that follows the story of Drizzt et al. The novels range from standard to excellent fare, though some scenes do shine. Of course Artemis Entreri does make a reappearance, as does the crystal shard, from Drizzt's early adventures. Recommend this volume over buying the books it contains individually, for it is an excellent value
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Summary: The legacy of the drow
Review: This was the best series of books describing the adventures of Drizzt and his companions. There is great description, inovation and action in each of the four books in the series. My favourite book was the siege of darkness, the characters are all superb, the draven battles with the drows are great, and Jarlaxe uses his ussual guile to come out on top.
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Summary: Best Fantasy
Review: A couple of years ago, i was at an AD&D getogether with some friends. It was my first time, and i absolutely loved it, so the host took out a book. It was an old, grey book, battered and well-read - The Icewind Dale Trilogy. I borrowed it, but unfortunately, i didn't get to read it right away. Some time later, i saw the book on my bookshelf (and no, i have yet to return it) and didn't have anything else to read, so i turned the first few pages, just reading through fast. When i got to page 20, i had alread moved into a comfortable position, and at page 30, i didn't register what happened around me. That book was probably the best book i had read at that point, and i so wanted more.
A year passed or so, without reading any other in the series, since my local bookstore didn't have any of them. But then, when walking in Copenhagen just a two weeks ago, i saw a bookstore, and thought i would take a look inside. After a bit of searching i found Salvatore's books, and there i saw it. A heaven of Forgotten Realms books. Seeing i was low on money, i chose just one, and this was the Legacy of the Drow, which i found to be the next in the series after the Icewind Dale Trilogy. All the way home (on the train) i read, and when i layed down in bed to go to sleep that night, i had covered the first 200 pages.
Once again, you are taken into the great fantasy world. Once again, you find yourself imagining the glorious sights and fights, and a sligh, foolish wish to be inside the story, right next to the companions, passes through your mind.
These books invites you to learn even more about the ways of the Drow, of love, of friendship and of loss. Never have i been so much taken away by a book than this, and i will always be a true fan of the series.
If you liked the other books, you will love this one. Forget that -- if you haven't read the other books, and you read this one, you WILL love it, period. The book leaves such a big impact on me. So big, in fact, that i actually cried in the very end of the last book, because of my attatchment to the characters, and i was truly overwhelmed by their happiness. Over what, you ask? Read, and you will know, and you will surely be just as touched as i.
"Or i'm a bearded gnome!"
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Summary: Great Drow Book!
Review: When I first started this book, I wasn't interested. A few chapters in, I fell in love with it.If you are a fan of R.A. Salvatore, You must own this novel! Take my advice because I am a HUGE fan of R.A. Salvatore! BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: A Waste Of Talent
Review: R. A. Salvatore's Crystal Shard trilogy and the drow prequel books are great fantasy stories. These books, however, are the beginning of the end. The books degrade in quality from the first one, "Legacy" to the last "Passage To Dawn". In these stories Drizzt and his friends go after their enemies - the drow, Drizzt's own people. As usual Salvatore's characters are great, as that is what drew us all to reading these books. The interaction between the drow ranger, the dwarf, the barbarian and the halfling are fabulous. Too bad Bob blows it in these books.
First he kills of Wulfgar. No problem I can deal with a main character dying: I dealt with Simba's dad dying, I can deal with this. But, as predicted, Wulfgar comes back in the last book in this series "Passages To Dawn." Yeah, we got fooled on that one. Didn't see that coming. "Passage To Dawn" is one of the worst fantasy books I've ever read because, while reading it, I felt that the sole purpose of this book to even exist is because Salvatore needed to wrap up a bunch of loose ends. It seemed that he barely even put any creative effort into this book.
Most of the other books are disappointing and anticlimactic -"Siege Of Darkness" being the best example of a big let down.
However the ABSOLUTE most annoying part of all of these books are Drizzt's whiny, pedantic monologues at the beginning of each chapter. This moral thumping drives me crazy. Drizzt has devolved to a two-dimensional automaton worrying about the moral implications of all his action and the fact that no one will accept him because of his race. Salvatore tries to make these books into some kind to "were-all-one-color-on-the-inside" parable. Unfortunately, Bob does not have the skill as a writer to pull it off: it simply appears as if Drizzt in just a whiner. (As an aside for those that play D&D: the portrayal of the drow as some type of underworld mafia, as Salvatore does, is totally inaccurate. The drow are chaotic evil. Salvatore has them act in a lawful evil manner, with a rigid society (remember Drizzt had to attend some coming of age ceremony on an earlier book. Not the stuff of a chaotic society. And furthermore, why would Lolth even care about Drizzt. She is chaotic, to have priorities be blown about in the wind like a feather.))
Anyway Salvatore forgot he was writing adventure books not fantasy soap operas.
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Summary: The Legacy
Review: I have never understood why my husband liked this book so much,until I read it. I love the way he describes each of the characters in full detail. He makes you feel that you are standing there watching everything. Kinda like a fly on the wall. The way he describes the fight scenes with Drizzt, the way he does some kind of dance. You picture how stubborn Cattie-Bri is and you begin to love her as well as Bruenor and Wulfgar. I am now on the third book of this series and i can't stop reading them. I have read alot of books, but they don't keep me that interested than these books have.
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Summary: The legacy of the drow
Review: This was the best series of books describing the adventures of Drizzt and his companions. There is great description, inovation and action in each of the four books in the series. My favourite book was the siege of darkness, the characters are all superb, the draven battles with the drows are great, and Jarlaxe uses his ussual guile to come out on top.
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Summary: Plenty of adventure - very little else
Review: This is a collection of previously published adventures of Drizzt Do' Urden assembled into a single volume. Urden is probably Salvatore's most popular character. A 'Dark Elf', born and raised in an underground city dedicated to the worship of an evil spider queen, Urden has rejected the ways of his people to become a sort of knight errant, usually seen in company with human and other friends he has gathered in his journeys.As shown by other reviews here, some readers really go for this style of fantasy, but I was largely unimpressed. My main problem was that with the elaborately balanced cast of characters - Elf, Dwarf, Barbarian, Thief, Cleric, Assassin, Priestess, and various magical weapons and items - it often felt more like an RPG scenario than a novel. That was especially true in the first book; the sequels were better but still not terrific. The characters and dialogue are thin. The surprises are few, the prose not particularly striking, character development entirely unknown, battles innumerable. In general, the book seemed aimed at the teen market that is the heart of the RPG industry. The first three volumes of the tetralogy tell the story of an attack from Menzabarranzan, Drizzt Do' Urden's place of origin, against the dwarves of Mithril Hall. The final volume is a bit tacked on, not really the same story as the earlier books, although it it further adventures of the same characters. Any of these four novels can be read as a stand-alone, although they do contain numerous spoilers for prior Urden novels. The 2nd through 4th also contain spoilers for the earlier novels in this set.
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Summary: Excellent piece of work
Review: This was the first set of RAS books I read. I read his NY Best seller, Sea of Swords, first. This set of books is packed with very interesting characters, epic conquest, fatal flaws, but probably no redemption. Its a solid book I thoroughly enjoyed reading. I consider it, with all due respect and understanding of course, to be a better story than Lord of the Rings. Even if this is your first of the Drizzt books, its still a good place to start as enough background is given to allow the characters actions to make sense. If you later read Dark Elf Trilogy it will explain more. This is a quite nice read which I thouroughly enjoyed so much so that I gave it to my sister for her to read. It contains very small bits of character humor, but no silliness. Its a serious book that is a lot of fun, thought provoking to some degree. Its not jam packet with spells and D&D-ish things. Its a real story focused more on characters than dice rolling confrontations. Which is not what I expected from a book based on a game.
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Summary: Essential for fans of the renegade Drow, Drizzt Do' Urden!
Review: If you're a Drizzt fan, and have not yet read this series, do so! Don't be intimidated by the length, you won't be able to put it down. R.A. Salvatore brings a new depth to my favorite fanatsy hero, Drizzt. Always soul searching, looking at life from an idealistic point of view, the innocent, yet wise, Dark Elf discovers himself and his place in the world. I didn't want it to end!
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