Rating: Summary: A really good book! Review: I belive that this is a realy excellent piece of work. Drizzt Do'Urden, is one of my favorite characters in the Forgotten Realms. I still think that "Homeland" is the best Drizzt novel though, but this is close behind it
Rating: Summary: SPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Review: I don't think enough can be said about this book! I just lose myself in Drizzt's challenges and the eldest bearne is about the best yet!! I love the whole journey back the Under Dark and Cattie Brie was amazing!! Salavatore is doing a magnificant job with evolving and maturing Drizzt throughout his travels. Once where the Hunter was dominant within his psyche now it's a controllable aspect that helps him through extremely difficult trials. That was excellent!!!! I just hope that this vintage Drizzt stays just the way he is. Long Live Salvatore!!!!
Rating: Summary: two enthusiastic thumbs up!!!! Review: I especially enjoyed the fight between Dantrag Baenre and Drizzt during the escape from Menoberranzan. I encourage anyone who has not read the trilogy to read it!
Rating: Summary: Just don't look at the cover. Drizzt isn't an old white guy Review: I give this book 5 stars because any Drizzt book is amazing. I am a big Drizzt (Drisst) fan and I hate the stupid cover art. The only pictures I like of Drizzt are the Streams of Silver cover, Realms of Valor, Silent Blade and Crystal Shard is alright but he looks like a human. In Starless Night he looks like an old white geezer. It's like they tried to make it the complete opposite.
Rating: Summary: Intrigue, great characters - Do not miss this book! Review: I imagined it would be hard to follow up after a book like "the Legacy" but this book (the second in the series) is extremely good. Drizzt runs off to confront his heritage in order to save his companions from future terror and attacks by the dark elves. Little does he know that the dark elves have other plans for the surface dwellers and the legendary Mithril Hall. This book mainly features Drizzt and Cattie-Brie, along with some of the classic drow - some of which have become my favorite characters in the books.It is amazing finally getting into the underground city of the drow (I have not yet read the "Homeland" books). The inner workings of the city are facinating and unlike anything I had ever imagined. They truely seem to be pure evil (or most of them at least). The political intrigue in this book is exceptional. It is nothing like the politics in a huge epic (like "Song of Ice and Fire") but still pretty good and facinating at face value for a such a small book and a vastly different target audience. This book never let me down and was quite fun and enjoyable to read. My only reservation about this book is that Breunor and Regis are not that involved in the story (they are definately not involved in the main story, and their side plot line is very slim). But Salvatore proves that he doesn't need all of the companions to make a great book, and also proves that he still has a lot of fire under him and some surprises still up his sleave. As always, the battles are fierce and exciting. Also the assasin (one of my favorites) is back and "integrated" into the drow society. Very interesting watching the strong and powerful get pushed around. Read this book - this sub series in the Drizzt series is my favorite so far and is filled with more action and adventures than the others I have read.
Rating: Summary: Intrigue, great characters - Do not miss this book! Review: I imagined it would be hard to follow up after a book like "the Legacy" but this book (the second in the series) is extremely good. Drizzt runs off to confront his heritage in order to save his companions from future terror and attacks by the dark elves. Little does he know that the dark elves have other plans for the surface dwellers and the legendary Mithril Hall. This book mainly features Drizzt and Cattie-Brie, along with some of the classic drow - some of which have become my favorite characters in the books. It is amazing finally getting into the underground city of the drow (I have not yet read the "Homeland" books). The inner workings of the city are facinating and unlike anything I had ever imagined. They truely seem to be pure evil (or most of them at least). The political intrigue in this book is exceptional. It is nothing like the politics in a huge epic (like "Song of Ice and Fire") but still pretty good and facinating at face value for a such a small book and a vastly different target audience. This book never let me down and was quite fun and enjoyable to read. My only reservation about this book is that Breunor and Regis are not that involved in the story (they are definately not involved in the main story, and their side plot line is very slim). But Salvatore proves that he doesn't need all of the companions to make a great book, and also proves that he still has a lot of fire under him and some surprises still up his sleave. As always, the battles are fierce and exciting. Also the assasin (one of my favorites) is back and "integrated" into the drow society. Very interesting watching the strong and powerful get pushed around. Read this book - this sub series in the Drizzt series is my favorite so far and is filled with more action and adventures than the others I have read.
Rating: Summary: stupidly funny Review: I liked this book okay, but the audio version was unintentionally hilarious. Simon Jones' renderings of Jarlaxle, Matron Baenre and Cattie-Brie are probably the funniest things I've heard in a long time. 2 thing that bothered me though: Leaving out some of my fave scenes(Drizzt meets the unicorn ect) And the pronounciations: I think it's Drisst, not Dritst. And Zaknayfeein, not Zaknuhfain....
Rating: Summary: bad from the cover on Review: I love Drizzt he's a great character and in other novels has proven to be not only a supreme fighter but intellegent too. Somehow in this book he losses it ;p Actually in another book Drizzt's age was given as 70 or 80. Extremely young for one who has 6 centuries to go. The cover art was painful to look at.
Rating: Summary: I miss Regis Review: I miss Regis, he was nowhere to be seen in this book
Rating: Summary: Pretty Good Review: I must admit that I did not like this one as much as I enjoyed the first, The Legacy. It was good, I will say that, however it was at a much slower pace than Legacy. Most of the time Cattie-brie was just looking for her friend Drizzt and did not link up until the very end. It just seemed like it could have been a little longer, perhaps, and a little more fast-paced. I had read three quarters of the book and did not realize it; I had actually expected more. But it was good, and another one of Salvatore's great works. I would recommend this book, just prepare for it to be a little slower than The Legacy.
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